you don't understand. the problem i have with synths (and guitars) is that the only thing people try to do nowadays is try to replicate the "vintage" sound. what if i don't want to sound like every other artist? i want sound for the modern age. if i wanted to be pretentious and make musique concrete then yeah i'd buy a moog modular, but i don't want to. people who try making innovative synths are always drowned out by these vintage replicas with no innovation whatsoever. i understand that there was innovation put into some of these instruments for their time, but we are in the 21st century now. musicians have to evolve more and more and keep on making things people have never heard before to get noticed, but almost any instrument company can just sit on old schematics from the 50s and sell like hotcakes.
my comment was just poking fun at how ludicrously expensive moogs are.
if you don't want to sound like every other artist then make a different synth patch. A lot of guitars and brown townog pianos sound the same but I've never thought two artists using the same instrument sounded similar as long as their compositions were unique.
That said, I've seen plenty of innovative synths that have gotten tons of press this year. I've seen more press about the new Roland JD-Xi and Xa than I have about the moog modular. Same goes for the new Teenage Engineering PO line and Korgs new stuff (although korg did a bunch of reboots this year too, but their new MS-20 desktop module has added features from their older version).
