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I started small, had the FM and Drum Volcas and a Korg Monologue. Recently picked up a Digitone and that's been a huge upgrade in terms of overall song writing ability and experience.
I still use the Volca FM all the time though, it's a bit tough to do the sound design on but I love the sounds that come out of it.
Ewi, microkorg, craftsynth 2.0, nts-1, crave, and a bunch of soft synths. Mainly I play my ewi but some keyboard and I really like a breath controlled physical modeling synth called Respiro.
The main thing I use these days is a modular setup, with mostly a lot of simple, single-function modules. Heavy on Doepfer and AI Synthesis.
I have a collection of analog mono synths and romplers, and a DX7. I usually avoid mixing computers and music, but lately I've been working on a microtonal controller and Surge XT has been great as something that's open source, supports MPE, and isn't too hard to set up.
Korg Prologue (8-voice), Polyend Tracker (for drumz and sample mischief), Elektron Model_Samples (because for portability and messing around, it's the easiest) and now I just purchased a Syntakt. Run stuff into a mixer>interface>FL Studio. Sometimes I will also plug in my G&L Fallout guitar and make guitar sounds and play with those as well. Also have a Novation Circuit (OG) floating around that I admit I still love, despite my hate for Components. I've been trying to streamline my pedals down to what I NEED, but you know how that goes...