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Originally Posted by
kurzweil
I'm not a youngster, but I'm looking for new synth territories to explore and the PB offers just that. Not interested in playing "hits from the '80s" all day long. That's what your Spotify/vinyl collection is for, if you really must.

This kind of comment is not unusual about the P5, P6, OB-6, etc. The people make the music, not the tool. If your brain associates a sound with a year, that's your brain, not everyone's. A tool is not limited to the year it was made (hey - P5 would be a 2020 instrument... aka timeless), it's only limited by the musician. These kinds of synths aren't limited in sound or genre. They are designed to be more for playing than noodlng - so that's the impact of the design and philosophy taken on them, not the type of music you can use them in. That's also a great context to compare them within.
The "player's synths" emphasize sound quality over features, and are fast and easy to make more amazing sounds with, up to and including those with moderate complexity. The "sound designer's synths" emphasize features over sound quality, and with time and effort spent, can produce amazing soundscapes with few limits.
Unless you fit 100% into one of those buckets, the best of all worlds is to have
at least one synth of each type.
Yes, of course, all of the above is a simplification and there's always exception etc etc etc etc.