There are some amazingly complex and sophisticated synthesisers which allow powerful in-depth synthesis which other synths simply cannot do
But the more the years go on, the more I’m of the opinion that the more complicated synths simply don’t afford the making of better music, and in many cases they fight against good sound and good music because the more complex detailed heroically-synthesised sounds become either the focus, or have too much importance attached, or worse, they have too much importance attached as far as the person making the sound is concerned, but nobody else really gives a crap or even notices that it’s such a complex and deliciously synthesised sound, they just don’t notice, but in the meantime, all the hard work in the composition has gone into these complex wonderfully created sounds that no other synthesiser could do
I know, you’re saying that as I own a Korg Opsix, isn’t that one of the most complex synths out there? Well, yes it is, but for one thing I’m completely at home with FM synthesis (having started on the Yamaha CX5M as my first actual synth that wasn’t a modular that I’d built myself (Digisound 80)) but that’s how I’m spotting this tendency – I’m now starting to not want to spend time on my own patches, which up to now was where most of the fun was, and starting to explore the much less capable and far simpler and more direct synths which are ‘just’ synthesisers, and not be afraid to put forward just basic synth sounds which almost any synth and any synthesist could have done #Synths