can anyone recommend a synth for analogue bell sounds.
i am not looking for realistic sampled bells or fm/additive type bell sounds.
any tips on programing them would also be helpful.
thanks

ring modulation might be great. my first guess would be something like plasticz, though not real analogue, but i remember my cz101 was nice for bells.

For programming ,check this article in Sound on Sound's Synth Secrets series.

If your gonna program them yourself then use a two or three oscillator synth and preferably one that has either Ring modulation or Cross Modulation, use one oscillator for the fundamental tone of the bell and the other for the dissonance by cross or ring modulating it and then detuning it.But you can also achieve this by sending the filter into self oscillation by turning the resonance up full, no filter modulation, and then detuning this using the filter cuttof, check out Ensembler (its free) and my patch DBBellisima for a few pointers on how to get an analogue bell sound using in this instance an actuall bell wave (sounds like cheating, but the actual bell wave sounds nothing like a bell ) and then detuning the oscillators to get the bell tone. As for synths that are good for this kind of patch, Pro 53, Oddity,impOSCar, Vstation etc, with a bit of twiddling most virtual analogues can be coaxed into producing bell sounds.

I got some awesome sounding bell sounds out of LinPlug's Albino.

thanks for the help.
tried the demos and albino has the sounds i was looking for.

Anyone know of any actual bell sounds like on

Miss Shiva 'Dreams' (cosmic gate remix).

or the scot p remix of that yoji biomehanika tune.