I bought a new synth. Well it's somewhat second hand and 1994 vintage and despite the really low prices you can pick these up on ebay for next to nothing, but it's pretty awesome (/me fails to find an appropriately dated word to describe this, rad or mental just don't suffice). It's a Roland JV-1080, which is a rack mount version of the JV series of synth. It has a Massive 8mb of samples, and the bread-and-butter Electric Bass and Piano sounds are about the best i've got my hands on. Decent sawtooth pulse and square presets are a bit thin on the ground but there's enough samples to make some good voices (a voice (or patch as Roland call it) is composeable of upto 4 samples that can be individually tweaked, enveloped, filtered and munged in other ways I haven't got my head round).