Halleluja!  Big Tick has returned to the world of VST plug-in development with a new version of Rhino VSTi and has set the old, classic Big Tick VSTs free, forever!

• TickyClav Clavinet Emulator
• Cheeze Machine String Ensemble Synth
• EP-Station FM Electric Piano
• Rainbow Antique vsti
• Angelina Angelina Choir Synth
• Effects Pack Various sound mangling stuff
• Dodecaline 12 delay lines version of Hexaline, 12 stereo delays with cross-feedback, parallel or serial modes, up to +/- 100% feedback for ambient special effects.
• DualDelay
• ep-phazer 2 independent left/right phasers, full stereo effect, with cross-feedback between left and right channels
• Hexaline 3 stereo delays with cross-feedback, parallel or serial modes, up to +/- 100% feedback for ambient special effects
• mabento This plugin ring-modulates incoming audio with sine waves of continuously varying frequency, and runs the result through a state-variable filter. It can often produce unexpected effects, from stuttering rhythms to ambient tones.2 independent left/right ring modulators. Variable (from low-frequency to audio rate) modulators range. Variable modulators shape.
• Built-in resonant filter.
• Nastyshaper This free plugin will distort your audio subtly or to the extreme ! Nastyshaper features: Pre and Post gain knobs, 3 different waveshaping functions. Shape 1 has 4 stages, Shapes 2/3 have 2 stages, An 8x oversampling mode for high-quality offline rendering* An 8x oversampling mode for high-quality offline rendering

I love TickyClav.  I love it.  It’s probably what first sold me on the idea of bothering to learn how to make all this crap run on a PC and drag it onto a stage.  And, as a personal/historical note, one of the very first VST instruments I ever used was Rainbow on which I emulated I think about a dozen classic synth sounds (before I was even aware that people did such things – until VSTs allowed for automation tracks to control synthesis, and computers allows storing presets and designing patches I had little interesting in the poor workflow and horrific presets that synths tended to come with for people of my particular age category, which is definitely post-modular analog synths) for my first digital album.  I knew essentially nothing about synthesis, MIDI, freeware, engineering, mastering, etc. etc. at the time, about 7 years ago.  But I still have happy memories (and .fxps) of using a friend’s copy of Rainbow.  And needless to say, I should think, I can recommend Big Tick’s freeware VST effects as I’ve used them all extensively over the years.  Especially the one named after my friends Makunoichi Bento.

Thanks, Big Tick!

To get the “goodies” you must register and then return to the home page and, at least on my PC’s IE8 (didn’t work on Opera) you’ll see a drop-down “login” tab at the top right of page which rapidly retracted out of view so I simply refreshed with my cursor positioned to pounce and catch it before it hid again.  Then go to the download page and a new “goodies” link has appeared for registered users.