If you are mainly looking for strings and such, personally I would look at a Roland. I think the Roland XP-80 is pretty good synth with some nice strings on it. You could also look at a Roland Juno-D. Both have good synth/orchestral sounds and are not overly expensive. You can finds numerous demos ...

Hi, I'm new in the forums The reason why I signed in is because I'm about to buy my first synth so I wanted to ask experts first before making a bad decision... and this looks like the right place! I play in a band and I mainly do some lead sytnhs and strings nothing much really. But we were composi...