Are you from yorkshire ? Sounds like something my dad would say to me , and just the way you typed it ! <| sep |> I have a very nice modular monosynth that I use for all synth parts . A hardwired synth just can ' t do the same things it can , and it wouldn ' t be feasible to buy several of each module in order to try to wire up polyphonic patches . Say you use all three oscillators of such a synth to make a nice , thick pad sound , and you know violinists tend to introduce more vibrato as each note ' s held down , so you decide to do something analogous to that , making a held note increasingly discordant by , say , increasing the depth of a BBD that ' s essentially c h o r u s i ngflangingphasingwhatever the sound . That ' s a nice patch , and you ' re not going to easily recreate it on something else . You could sample it , but then you lose the ability to use portamento on each monophonic part , with its velocity as well as its pitch . I ' ve sampled my synth a few times , but never get around to using those samples , I just love wiring up a brand new , original patch each time . There are so many possibilities out there , and it ' s nice when each of your tracks has its own unique vocabulary . I ' ve considered getting a polyphonic synth to save time for polyphonic parts , but realistically , I ' d never use it . The cost in time of recording everything monophonically is well worth it to create such rich and diverse parts .