Tim Rhino Bank 4

[Big Tick]

Amazing !!!!

This Rhino bank came as a request from Rhino users for less CPU usage as a full blown Rhino patch can eat CPU very quickly. This entire bank only uses 1 or 2 Oscillators. However you will be amazed at what Rhino can do with this limitation. This bank contains Pads, Algorithmics, Atmospheres, Analog and Digital leads, Ethnic instruments, Clav and piano type sounds, plenty of microtonals ( another user request) Bass and even an Intergalactic Police car ( pull over buddy!) Rhino just keeps on getting better! Enjoy!

You can get his 4th bank from the site below,
'Tick

[baggio]

The man is a machine!

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

Just got the email, I'll check this out at home tonight! I wonder.. did someone pump Tim up with Mountain Dew and chocolate-covered espresso beans?

Stop him before *I* end up sleepless checking out all his presets!

[wrench45us]

i didn't get to these until this evening. this is really some outstanding work. i'd never have thought such rich pads were possible pulling only 6-8% of my cpu.
just outstanding
showcases both rhino and your sound design

the angelina patches are coming in handy as well as i'm working up some midi files of gregorian chants for the holidays

[ObsoleteAcc99]

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[foosnark]

I'm glad to see a little bit more variety in this bank -- frankly I am not really interested in more Space Music style pads and "algorithmics." I just can't use them really, and if I could, I'd already have a hundred or more to play with

Which isn't to say some of the pads aren't generally good anyway. "Warm blooded Rhino Pad" is nifty (with the panning toned down)

A lot of these patches have WAY more panning than I like. There's no reason whatsoever to pan a bass with velocity or keyboard tracking! Aiee! Is that a copy-and-paste error (and you don't use headphones so it wasn't obvious) or was that intentional?

Also a lot of the leads are very heavy on delay effects (some of them don't sound like much without it) and have bigger sweeping filter attacks than are really warranted I think.

Take Albedo Pad, kill all the panning stuff, cut filter env mod down to about 20% each and switch FX out of serial mode and boom -- an excellent and very playable digital/analog patch. (In fact if I can make a request to patch makers in general, I'd like to see more of these D-50/M-1ish sounds!)

FM Pianics is one I like; all kinds of fun can be had playing with it. Set OSC 3 to Sine Offset and Voices to 1 and it's a lead sound. Gentle Giant Clav too -- again with the panning stuff killed, maybe swap the reverb for rotary speaker and hook the speed up to a mod wheel.

Anyway... thanks for posting a million patches -- and particularly these with low CPU use -- even among the ones I don't like are ones I like, if you know what I mean

[tconrardy]

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A lot of these patches have WAY more panning than I like. There's no reason whatsoever to pan a bass with velocity or keyboard tracking! Aiee! Is that a copy-and-paste error (and you don't use headphones so it wasn't obvious) or was that intentional?

Anyway... thanks for posting a million patches -- and particularly these with low CPU use -- even among the ones I don't like are ones I like, if you know what I mean

Sounds like you know your way around Rhino as well. My sugg is to use these patches as starting points to create them the way you would use them. Everyone is different. At the time, I put in those effects because thats the way I like to hear them . Someone else ( like you) would be different. Please feel free to tweak these away to your own custom "usable" bank!

Tim

[MickGael]

Had to tell Tim that I had a great big smile when I saw the "Gentle Giant" preset. Longtime fan.

[sempondr]

Great job! Thank you Tim!
How about making underdog bank with some "not in your face" presets that don't take much of sonic spectrum and have little or no character of their own...like quiet EP's organs etc.
I really miss this kind of presets in Rhino, wish I could program them myself but ATM I'm still in 101 level for synthprogramming retarded

Sorry for my english.

[tconrardy]

Had to tell Tim that I had a great big smile when I saw the "Gentle Giant" preset. Longtime fan.

HE HE! me too! I was tweaking a custom additive waveform and came up with this twangy sound. It reminded me of Gentle Giants music with that great clav work.

[MickGael]

"Run, run, the shotgun has got you in its range.
Turn, turn away, when it's time to make a change.
Look where you're going. try not to lose your way.
What good is knowing you have to go away?
Go, you make go, never know, never know.
Time's run away, so have to go, have to go.
Put back the ace black, you never made it good.
Go while you can go. Go while the going's good."

Mmmm, good!

[Lunch Money]

I don't normally poke my head outside the Tracktion forum, but I feel chatty tonight so I thought I'd add my $0.02 in here:

Although I don't own a single commercial softsynth, I am extremely impressed by Rhino already, from checking out the literature and demos on the website, and from reading user reviews (ie. raves). The other products I've tried from Big Tick impress me, as does the company's approach to customer support and service.

Knowing Tim's work on other freeware synths and seeing that he has 4 banks (and counting?) for the Rhino already is really the icing on the cake that will likely make Rhino my first synth purchase. The fact that there are other talented and prolific patch programmers on the case makes the decision even easier.

Cheers.

[wrench45us]

I thought by now I'd have gotten through the pathces on bank four, but to be honest I haven't made it past listening to about 6 of them because I keep getting distracted by song ideas as I play with them.

That's about all I can really ask for from a patch bank. There are presets that inspire a song and then there are those you look a round to fill in a part once I get an arrangement going.

I can't say how the rest of the bank is going to be, but so far this is the hightest use ratio I've experienced from any bank on any synth.

This may just be a happy coincidence of Tim and my taste and coming of electronic musical age at similar time and influences. Others mileage may vary.

[tconrardy]

Knowing Tim's work on other freeware synths and seeing that he has 4 banks (and counting?) for the Rhino already is really the icing on the cake that will likely make Rhino my first synth purchase. The fact that there are other talented and prolific patch programmers on the case makes the decision even easier.

I think you will find that once you get into Rhino, you can do just about anything. Thats what keeps programmers like myself and Daniel coming back to it.Tick also listens to feedback( see the sticky thread) for improving Rhino. So overall, it's a real good deal, with all this support as well.

Some comments on this bank from a programmers perspective:

Most of these patches ( if not all of them) are simply results of my experimentation. One method of working is to create one patch from scratch. Then copy it to the next location and create something completly different from it. What was a Pad at first becomes a lead sound that becomes quite stricking ( I am amazed as well)In this bank, I was trying to please a lot of people from the feedback from the other banks. So theres basses, more microtonals ( this surpisingly was a much requested item. Glad to hear this)Patches such as 31EquelPad and PhiStar Cluster are microtonal pads. They do sound spacy!

I also did a few "algorithmics" with only 1 or 2 Osc as on the previous patch banks, this can be a big CPU hog. The algorithmics can be identified with the @ at the end of the patch name.

More lead sounds,including a Rick Wakeman patch. I am amazed at the lead sounds that Rhino can produce. Its easy on the CPU and can get a lot of mileage.

I have also put in some "normal" patches like strings, claves and piano type sounds.Almost all of these use custom waveforms created from the additive generator.Thats how I was able to create those piano type textures.

However, if you feel there is too much effects ( my shorcoming please feel free to edit to taste to make this bank workable for you.I did try experimenting with effects this time. A few patches contain that really weird effect "Stereo Ocktaverb" These include " Crunch Time" and "Octave Sweeper". Quite a cool effect.

This may just be a happy coincidence of Tim and my taste and coming of electronic musical age at similar time and influences. Others mileage may vary.

well.. I grew up in the prog rock era: Yes, early Genisis, Gentle Giant, Vandergraph Generator, Allan Holdsworth ( BTW: OT, but Allan contacted me once to get some Atari Cubase files as I am the Atari-MIDI man on the net. I actually got to talk to him for 30 minutes!, plus got 3 signed CD's..great guitarist!)Also Tangerine Dream, Jean Michael Jarre, as well as the more experiemntal stuff like musique Concrete, stockhousen, Cage, ect. So my patches tend to reflect this era.

[pummel]

tim,

you really are a star in this forum -- great patches on a variety of synths, lots of advice and encouragement, never a negative word.

glad to have your presence !!