i need help purchasing a synth

[Ascension Dream]

I am looking for an analog synth that has a choir type vocal setting (kind of like in exit music by radiohead). Also, it would need to have a decent string synth as well... I'm pretty new to this, Ive only ever used computer based programs, so I could use whatever help.

 

Thanks.

[orangefunk]

Sounds like a Mellotron is what you are after.... therefore an analogue synth is the last thing you want.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron

 

I'd think about a rompler (Emu Vintage Keys has a mellotron sound) or perhpas something like Reason if you have a laptop/PC as that has a load of mellotron samples.

 

Alternatively you could try MTron.

 

http://www.gmediamusic.com/gforce/m-tron/M-Tron.html

 

or perhaps the new hardware keyboard from manikin

 

http://www.manikin-electronic.com/en/index.html

[rockfan]

 

Originally posted by orangefunk ...an analogue synth is the last thing you want.

 

Yup. Not an analog synth if you want those sounds.

Rompler is your best bet.

[Ascension Dream]

thanks a bunch, ill check those out...

 

any other suggestions?

[synth2themax]

i have played an alesis qs7.1 that has some sounds that you are looking for, but that keyboard is gay to the max!!! so don't get it!

[Morandar]

Well, I think that any rompler could obtain a sound like this: just take a choir wave (not strictly necessary), pass it through a formant effect, and cut the frequencies. Add some reverb 'cause you ought to

 

Or use a vocoder eheh!

[Madcap-513]

Johnny also used, extensively, a Ondes-Martenot on Kid-A, which is some sort of soupped up Theramin, and without a doubt costs a bajillion dollars (I'm guessing at least 5k, they look rare and complex).