If we talk about synths that we owned in the past and regret selling iRobmobius wrote: Nord Lead (which I wish I never sold).
say Roland Jupiter 8 (with MIDI!!).
Two pictures of my setup back in 2004 (did not use any softsynths back then):
The price of all equipment together (second hand prices) was around 3000 Euros (or a a little more). Try to get only the Jupiter for that now...
Ingo
