A happy new Rhino owner

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

Well, I went and did it. It was payday and I had budgeted for one commercial VSTi.. I've tried a ton of 'em the past two weeks (in DEMO mode) and I decided Rhino was it. I've been moving into ambient/dark soundtrack kind of things and Rhino totally rocks for it!

An excellent piece of work, kept me from buying Absynth.

[sempondr]

An excellent piece of work, kept me from buying Absynth.

Agreed. I never regret choosing Rhino over Absynth.

[pummel]

LOL, i just bought rhino last week also.

i tested a ton of synths before choosing rhino; it may not be the best looking, but if really covers the bases on functionality.

[Tempest]

I bought it about a month ago and I just wish I had earlier. With Tim's great banks, I could have saved the $400 I spent on Atmosphere. Not that Atmosphere isn't good, it is, it's just that Rhino could have easily filled that sonic void for much less money.

Now if I could only learn to program the damn thing

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

Rhino ate my Saturday night!

I fired up OPlat and started checking out the presets.. threw together a quick drum groove and started jamming, switching presets every so often. This started at about 6:30pm PST. When I was done with just a *few* banks, it was almost 10:00pm! So much for going out early.

I want my Saturday night back!

Worse, I'm going to have to upgrade my P4 2.53GHz to a 3GHz. CPU now.. hee hee.. to get more Rhino!

I think I'm in love.

[tconrardy]

I bought it about a month ago and I just wish I had earlier. With Tim's great banks, I could have saved the $400 I spent on Atmosphere. Not that Atmosphere isn't good, it is, it's just that Rhino could have easily filled that sonic void for much less money.

Now if I could only learn to program the damn thing

Thanks for the comparison. I was thinking of getting atmosphere, but if you say that Rhino can do the same type of sounds, then I can spend the mola elsewhere.

BTW: sent a NEW bank of PADS to Tick.Some of my best PAD stuff yet! They were for the Patch Arena Contest.It's now closed so I can release them to Tick. You can grab them from the PA download area as well.Theres also a bank of FX patches there made by TOTC, but they crash Rhino v1.09. I mailed him about it and he will hopefully get the bank fixed.He originally did it in v1.07

Rhino is a great synth, so I hope Tick get the new patch bank up soon, or you can grab em at PA ( but you will need to register)

TimC

[Big Tick]

Tim,

Thanks for the presets. unfortunately I can't check them out, nor put them up on the web site for the moment, as I'm on the road for most the week. I'll do that as soon as I'm back
'Tick

[wrench45us]

Tim -- always look forward to your new banks. Have to wait till this evening to give a listen.

with things otherwise so quiet in Tickville following the 1.09 release, I've been going back into the various banks that have been released including the mono and poly banks. It's getting to be quite a collection. With undoubtedly more to come.

Rhino continues to surprise, delight and inspire. And the more I work with it the better I've gotten at not overloading the CPU. When I first got it I headed right for the complex CPU intensive presets, but now I'm finding more places for the simpler sounds that work well in a mix and rhino is just great at providing those as well.

One thing I might slip in here is -- I've also been playing with the free VirSyn MicroTera (1/6 of the new Tera 2.0) and VirSyn has some very user friendly envelope editing features -- the general approach seems to me to set a standard for all multi-stage envelope interfaces, and, of course, I immediately thought of rhino.

[pummel]

I headed right for the complex CPU intensive presets, but now I'm finding more places for the simpler sounds that work well in a mix

along those lines, would there be general interest for a "vanilla lite" bank -- simple, bread and butter stuff (well done), very easy on the cpu, using only 1-3 osc's ?

[Improv]

I headed right for the complex CPU intensive presets, but now I'm finding more places for the simpler sounds that work well in a mix

along those lines, would there be general interest for a "vanilla lite" bank -- simple, bread and butter stuff (well done), very easy on the cpu, using only 1-3 osc's ?

The load of the existing Rhino banks can be made less cpu intensive by reducing the number of voices, turning off effects, turning off or altering the sequencer,etc.

Or were you thinking of making another bank? If so, how does it relate to the stock banks? Totally different sounds or reworked patches? If you meant just reworking the stock patches, people can do that themselves to their own tastes and needs.

[wrench45us]

as i implied the mono and poly banks are generally less cpu intensive and still maintain the rhino sound.

[pummel]

the question is related to new stuff, from scratch; different from and unrelated to any of the existing banks. designed with the goal of max sound / min cpu, and lead (rather than pad).

then again, if all rhino owners are running 2gh or more, cpu might be a mute point.

[Improv]

the question is related to new stuff, from scratch; different from and unrelated to any of the existing banks. designed with the goal of max sound / min cpu, and lead (rather than pad).

then again, if all rhino owners are running 2gh or more, cpu might be a mute point.

The SOUND has to be primary. You obviously can't get too cpu intensive or only 3.1 Ghz dual processor P4's with 3 Gb of ram will be able to use them.

I use an Athlon 1600 w. 1Gb ram and I really don't get too bothered if a few patches overload the computer. There are plenty more, and most of those overloading patches can be 'tamed' as I mentioned before.

My computer is hardly 'state of the art', but I can run most Rhino patches. Yes, a few overload. But then I either modify the patch or do without.

If someone is still running on a 700Mhz PIII, they should not expect complex synths like Rhino etc to
always be able to run. For better or worse, the computer industry goes onwards and upwards, faster and larger. <shrug>