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the 80s was basically the last era of innovation in the synth world. (PPG, D-50, DX7, EMUII, Juno).
In the 90s and early 2000s you could pick up these keyboards/racks for dirt cheap compared to the boring array of Korg M1 clones and crappy virtual analogues.
now the music (gear) industry has become reactionary to that era by shilling expensive analogue crap only to inflate the false dichotomy.
"digital = cold, stale, thin, harsh, repetitive numbers in a computer"
"analogue = mystical, warm, phat, fat, lush, authentic".
Watching Dave Smith sell out with the Prophet 5 makes me cringe as he was always forward looking.
To be fair, synth sounds have been so solidified in people's minds that people buy synths to make those sounds, not new ones, just as if they were buying a guitar / piano.
Modern game / film composers all use the same 5 sounds.
Imagine the opening to a new film, you can already hear the "felt piano" sample playing some pretentiously sparse lydian (meandering / uncertain) motif, followed by some ambiguous string drones, while the camera pans around some empty landscape to be met by the narration.
Innovators like brian eno, michael cretu, depeche mode didn't give a fuck about technical details and just wanted to create.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08