Does anybody use individual outs on synths?

[Peter Korsten]

As the subject says. When Martin and Gert 😢 came to Malta, the first 
thing that Martin did was pull out the 8-cable snake from my EX5. Fair 
enough, those four extra outputs was perhaps not my best investment ever.

But those synths (Proteus 2000, Wavestation SR, Micro Q and EMX-1) all 
have individual outs. These four alone have 18 outputs between them, and 
there are another 10 for the EX5 and AN1x. My question is: are these 
actually useful?

I might get an Airbase 99 somewhere in the future (today, I reluctantly 
didn't accept an offer of €450 for one with the latest ROM and great 
optical condition) and that thing has a silly amount of outputs – but 
apparently, you cannot pan sounds over the stereo outs.

The Proteus 2000 now has three ROMs; just an hour ago I installed the 
X-Lead ROM. This one would be the most likely contender to have the 
extra outputs connected, to have a bit more freedom with routing and 
effects.

But as said, I have no idea how well this works out in practice.

- Peter