There were four oscillators, each with its own octave selector, tuning, waveform and level. You could also sync up various oscillators or cross-modulate.
The crazy part came in when you could play though them in poly mode, one at a time. (In fact you could only do this in arpegiator, mode, but let's extend the concept here to normal playing...)
Transferring this to a Scope synth, I think it'd be most interesting to replicate that ability.
Imagine having slight (or huge) variations between oscillators - you play your riff, but the addition of an extra note, or pause, or landing on a particlarly oddly modulated socillator would result in a really different output.
Advance this idea a little further and you could have say, four oscillators and be able to select a basic "playing pattern". That is you could say "play the oscillators in this order: 1,1,2,2,3,4" or "1234321". So in some ways it'd be like an arpegiator, but instead of notes you are defining the oscillator playing order.
Likewise you could selectively send modulation to particular oscillators, so that, perhaps you had heavy vibrato only on numbers 3 & 4, but delay routed to oscillator 1.
You get the idea.
Now obviously this would only work with a mono synth, but then that's OK, this would definitely be a speciality lead machine, and that would lead to some excellent, specific controls for leads rather than trrying to be a general everything device.
This might be a nice change from endless emulations, taking just an under-used idea from the past.
So, if it gets built I want to be beta tester !
