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Rhino

Synth (Hybrid) Plugin by BigTick
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Rhino has an average user rating of 4.71 from 17 reviews

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Rhino

Reviewed By foosnark [all]
October 24th, 2003
Version reviewed: 1.09 on Windows

Easily the best VFM ever, incredible sound and flexibility (and this is coming from a raving z3ta+ fan). It's an industrial death machine, an FM powerhouse and an ambient/Newage wonder all at the same time. It even does some VA sounds respectably.

The UI is my least favorite thing about it, and it's what kept me away from Rhino until my resolve finally broke down. It's not hard to use once you get used to it, but a lot of controls are only accessible by clicking or right-clicking on things that aren't buttons. For instance, to get to the additive synthesis panel, you have to choose a User waveform (and to edit it, you have to choose the same one off the menu again). On that panel, the bars pointing upward change the level for various harmonics and the bars pointing downward change the phase, but there is no label in the UI to tell you this. Reading the manual is a must -- thankfully it's a good manual, and there are tutorials online as well.

Within a couple of hours of purchase I had built a decent FM bassline-and-drums loop patch from scratch, and this morning in 20 minutes I made a very unique harpsichordish sound from scratch using additive synthesis. Aside from a couple of weird quirks in the tempo-synced envelope editor (which can be worked around), it's not difficult, it's just obscure. :)

The limited bank of presets that comes with the demo is greatly expanded by the downloadable banks at Big Tick's site. Those pads! Those scary ambient atmospherics! Those DX7 ports! Awesome stuff.
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tommyzai
tommyzai
7 February 2015 at 2:08pm

Rhino is an amazingly flexible, great sounding soft synth that has evolved into a 64-bit hybrid FM beast.

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BlackWinny
BlackWinny
18 October 2019 at 4:15pm

BigTick is now replaced by 2GetherAudio, where is the former BigTick boss:

  1. https://www.2getheraudio.com/
  2. https://www.kvraudio.com/developer/2getheraudio

They even have now their own Forum on KVR:

Some of their old awesome VSTs are already re-released in 64-bit and some new plugins were created during the last months. It is probable that all their other best BigTick plugins will be re-released too, Rhino included. Now... when... Nobody can't tell but I think that they are probably already working on them.

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