Haha the mikrokorg was my most unused synth, until I sold it.
Potentially brilliant, utterly ruined by its horrible programming interface.
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Yeah, the MicroKorg and DSI desktop evolver showed me what to avoid in a synth. I just can’t handle matrix style editors and it made me really scared about buying the Take 5. Thankfully the Take 5 is a pleasure to use.
That’s why I would buy those awesome sounding MicroKorg patches above and just use it like that. 
Last week I would have said my Dreadbox Typhon (a common mention in this thread), but I sold it last weekend. It just didn’t do enough extra over Syntakt’s mono voices. It sat in a box for almost six months.
I sell synths I’m not using. I’m down to two hardware synths only now, but they are both keepers (Syntakt and Digitone).
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I was also going to say Matriarch. In my studio, it sits above a matrixbrute and across the room from multiple polyphonic synths with patch memory. So often I just want to tweak a preset and play that I don’t very often use the Matriarch the way I intended to (as a synthesis/sound design exploration tool). And, when I do I find that it just doesn’t do what I expect. It’s totally my fault, I’ve had it over a year and never really put the time in to sit down and learn what exactly each module is doing. I know what all the modules do, but I don’t know what sort of CVs they’re each really spitting out and what the CV inputs expect, and I think that’s the source of most of my frustration.
Or maybe I’m just not that creative, I have similar frustrations in open ended videogames that everyone else swears are fun and I swear make me feel like I’m not smart enough to play them. The Matriarch makes me feel the same way a game like Prey does, where I know there are smarter solutions to the puzzles and I’m just not creative enough to see them without being shown that I can use the levitation ability to move a piece of furniture blocking my way instead of blowing it up. When I have a half dozen other synths that don’t make me feel that way, yeah the Matriarch doesn’t get played much.
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Syntakt
Used it two or three times.
If it had 4 audio outputs it would have replaced my AR and two monosynths (original intention), but… for sale.
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FWIW I feel like while I know what the knobs do the default tuning of the CV values/knob ranges is a bit wonky, so in that respect it’s not just you. Maybe if I had more experience with the Moog way or something it wouldn’t be an issue, but the Envelopes don’t seem to behave like I expect. I can get past it, but I could see it being an issue. Then again, they are the only analog envelopes I have, so perhaps that’s why.
And, of course if you are patching it you always run out of attenuverters, and the damn back panel CV jacks not being labeled from the front is annoying.
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For me, that’s the Gecho Loopsynth.
It’s a little hard to integrate with my setup, but I love the little thing when I use it standalone as a little meditation box.
Always feel like I’m back from space after getting lost in it a while. I should mess around with it today.
It’s also the most “boutique” synth I’ve got in comparison to the other big brand ones, and plays and looks pretty unique.
Everything else that I’ve found myself not using for extended periods I’ve sold to fund what I do have, and to save some brain clutter.
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That’s my one day kind of synth.
I use the emulation of that filter on all my Opsix patches.
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Some knucklebones and some cables with in line attenuators built in will expand your options significantly. If I used my Matriarch more often I’d be eyeing cables like that for sure, and I ordered a knucklebones with it because I knew I’d use it (and I did on the second patch).
It’s my Syntakt. I actually really dig the sounds, and like the way I feel very limited in shaping the sounds (in stark contrast to my Hydrasynth or other quite deep synths), but what I don’t really gel with is the Elektron sequencers.
I can, for whatever reason, not really get past the fact I can only see 16 steps at a given time. I find that pretty annoying when making longer sequences. The fact that I can’t do polyphony has also proven itself to be pretty annoying (which I actually wouldn’t have thought, initially).
Peculiarly, Elektron boxes are very much akin to Trackers in their design, and with the Polyend Tracker I had an easy time programming actual songs, whereas with the Syntakt I stick around very short sequences. Anyone else who have had that problem?
Anyways, it’s for sale and looking for a new home.
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currently it’s a Moog Minitaur.
But this is mostly because I sold all the other things I was using even less as part of a massive slimming down effort.
It’s great. But…
I think it’s finally going in aid of buying a MOSS card for my Korg Triton.
All of them 
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Not using my Reface DX at all but I can’t break up the family! I wish the Digitone could get sines that pure. Also my Digitone keys is in the box but hopefully just temporarily. I guess FM in general isn’t having a great time in the studio.
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Moog Mother 32 x2
Just not into their whole thing. Feels like driving a Rolls Royce, naaah, not for me.
The main time I’ve used them is to make them the least Moog sounding possible.
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For me it’s the Lyra-8. It’s an incredible instrument. Tons of character and fun to use. Problem for me is that I never find a way to integrate it into my tracks as it seems to overtake everything.
But nothing better than a Lyra to get lost in some sonic mayhem after a lousy day at work. So I don’t sell.
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I Miss my reface Dx. I sold it. And that keyboard you can find even on bigger and more expensive synths. I wish I had a digitone .
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There’s various old stuff that isn’t worth selling, or will be sold someday … or that there isn’t room to use.
In particular: Korg Z1. Haven’t played it since the XY pad started to lose some sensitivity; I love using that pad for filter/resonance. It’s a huge boat and not used much, so it ended up in a case. (Too bad Korg never made a little modeling synth to add to the Modwave/Wavestate/Opsix family. Or an IOS Z1/Prophecy app.)
I also like the Roland SH-201, which seems to disgust many people. But again, no room.
Yes!! I had a Lyra and loved it dearly and almost never touched it and sold it before a move. Now I wish I hadn’t!
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Yes. I feel very decadent about it, but it works. Instead of buying something, I go to the “synth store” on the shelf.
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Ok, so most unused refers to a recent time frame and is not necessarily absolute.
In this case, I can mention my Kurzweil K2600r, which I have put into a rack case and not used since 12 years - before that I’ve used it all the time. Switched it on in 2020 a few times and it still works. Probably, a candidate for sale.