pick 5 of the very best.

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Imagine you had to get rid of all your gear and choose only one of the following for the your pleasures:

1 Poly
2 Mono
3 Drum machine
4 Sequencer
5 Wild card ( your own choice.)

Only 5 pieces and No modulars allowed!!

1. EMU P2500 (XL ROM, Techno Yard ROM, sounds of the ZR ROM, and Protozoa ROM, that'll give me enough timbrality and a deep enough architecture coupled with waves to cover almost any base I need) [ummm, now the P is DAMN modular in nature, so I'm not sure if it counts or not]

2. FutureRetro 777

3. EMU P2500 (with a Protean ROM and Techno Beat ROM, I'd not only have same damn good acoustic sets available, not only some basic 909 and 808 sampels available, but enough analogue based waves and a deep enough architecture to go to town in regard to creating my own drum timbres)

4. If software is allowed, Ableton Live, if software isn't allowed I'd say a Roland MV8000 (that, coupled with two Ps and the 7, I have damn hefty amount of sequencing power available).

5. Roland V-Synth

[OggeOJ]

1 Korg M1
2 Arp2600, if it counts as modular then Moog Voyager
3 Elektron Machinedrum
4 Doepfer MAQ 16/3 or Schaltwerk
5 OH MAN, THE Wavestation or Prophet 5.

[JJQ]

1 Poly - Roland Jupiter-8
2 Mono - Minimoog D
3 Drum machine - Rolant TR-808
4 Sequencer - Roland TB-303
5 Wild card - Oberheim Xpander

[modulator_esp]

1. Matrix 12
2. Mono/Poly
3. ER-1
4. P3
5. Prophet VS

[Bob-omb]

1 Roland JD-800
2 Moog LP
3 Roland TR-808
4 Cubase running on a Macbook
5 Solina String Ensemble

[Jack Spider]

If I had to trim everything down, it would be thus:

1. Roland Jupiter 6
2. Moog Little Phatty Stage
3. Boss DR-880
4. N/A - I don't use sequencers.
5. Alesis QS8.2 with Vintage Keys Q-Card.

[Soundwave]

I've already downsized!

1) AN1X
2) Pulse+
3) 309
4) Revolution (almost the AN1X or Regalwerk)
5) Polymorph

For a wanna have list.

1)Waldorf Wave
2)777
3)Maybe a Machinedrum with sample upgrade or Rackattack if I didn't want my 309.
4)Notron
5)Spectralasis

[roginator]

1.prophet 5
2.minimoog
3.linndrum
4.logic
5.hardsid

[roginator]

1.prophet 5
2.minimoog
3.linndrum
4.logic
5.hardsid

[brian.only]

Right now a Trident, usually prophet 10
Mono/Poly
'analog' trap kit
Live 6
Wurlitzer 200a

[waveterm]

1. PPG Wave 2.3
2. minimoog w. internal Midi
3. Akai MPC-60 ( or 3000 )
4. Schrittmacher
5. Laptop w. Reason 4

Haha......just kidding.

No 5 would be...................

a Waveterm B of course !!

WT

[JSRockit]

1) Monomachine
2) Moog Little Phatty
3) Elektron Machinedrum UW
4) Akai MPC1000
5) Korg EMX-1
6) Yamaha CS01 MKII

[crystalmsc]

1. uWaveXT 30V, as the main multitimbal polysynth
2. Pulse+, as a mono synth and analog filter to process the other
3. MC-307, as a drum machine, real time groovy box and some rompler sound source
4. Dual Core Laptop, running SONAR and VSTs (fx,synth,sampler) and a lot of samples
5. Karma (with Moss board and some expansion card) for the sound, multi engine, Karma Function, as a controller for above gears and Karma MW software in the laptop

[clueless]

Wow! There are some wild differences of opinion. Surprised the Andy ain't getting more of a mention.
For the record here's my choices:

1 Big Andy
2 Oddy (I class it as a mono)
3 808
4 ARP sequencer (Yeah I know it's very old school but paired with the oddy!!
5 MEK

Yeah... not very original I know, but I am a man of simple choices.

[Analogue Crazy]

1.) Juno-60
2.) SH-5
3.) TR-808
4.) ARP Sequencer
5.) CS-40M