Personally, while I've always drooled over such sexy pieces of hardware,, my lack of musical prowess precluded spending much money for keyboard instruments I could not play.
The PC, DAW and the VST changed all that for me and now I have several synths including the Arturia Modular V, the iMini, the Animoog, iSEM and iVCS3. In fact, I've got a few other MiniMoogs and VCS3s as well, both on my PC and my iPad, purchased at a fraction of the price of just one of the many modules that made up the old machines and I must say the softsynhs sound very close to the original for a fraction of the price.
I find it interesting to consider the evolution of noise generators, from the first drums to physical means of producing fixed pitches to electrical and electronic instruments that generate analog signals that resemble their physical predecessors to digital sound generators that were then programmed to have more of the quirks and instabilities of the analog world to physical modeling in software of the real world physics behind real world instruments.
One problem, the softsynths were lacking those big knobs and switches. The solution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCYKA-Ty1Js
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXcIDzRtsJI
Some really incredible builds ! Later I'll post about the time I got beat up by Keith Emerson's Moog 3C.
I’m not a keyboard guy but it appears to me that we’re in the midst of a sort of analog synth revival right now. If you look through any of the big gear catalogs these days they keyboard section will be totally overflowing with reissue and vintage inspired instruments and modules. Lots of it is digital but it’s digital emulating analog and the overall structure is very old school with knobs and physical controls. I bought a little thing called a micro-Korg recently and it lets you stack up your (virtual) oscillators and filters and that sort of thing. It even has wooden end caps on the enclosure. Pretty neat.