“Thousand times less powerful than a mobile phone app”?
I sort of know what they were trying to say but ignorant people should not write articles and make stupid statements like this. There is no mobile app or digital keyboard that can sound like a analog modular. It is primarily the fat filters, VCFs. Some expensive keyboards approximate but not that we’ll in my opinion. Even the new analog minimoogs don’t sound as fat as the old ones. Something about the transistor ladders that is cool.
There is re-emergence of modulars that now compete with Moog. It is an expensive hobby. Many trance artists have them. Takes about 3K to get started. It’s on my wish list.
There may be some analog artifacts which are hard to duplicate precisely ... but methinks the point of the comment is that a mere cell phone can produce far more sophisticated & realistic sounds with great ease.
Give app Animoog a spin. Close enough to the old boxes for most applications; if you _need_ that special tone exactly, your need will warrant the high cost for the actual old boxes or advanced reproductions thereof.