Tone2 releases Gladiator 2

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Tone2 Gladiator 2

Tone2 has released version 2 of Gladiator, a virtual instrument plug-in for Windows and Mac, supporting an exhaustive list of synthesis types.

Gladiator 2 features

  • High-end sound quality: Analog, warm, transparent and fat.
  • Huge sonic range, unique sound.
  • Different synthesis types can be combined.
  • Low CPU, high reliability.
  • Semi-modular, high flexibility, expandability.
  • 1050 professional sounds.
  • Real stereo, Dolby Prologic II encoding.
  • Up to 18 oscillators per voice, 4x stereo unison.
  • 110 different oscillator types with 36865 waveforms.
  • Aliasfree, 162x oversampling.
  • Psychoacoustical processing.
  • 41 unique filters (Analog, vocal, comb, Moog, phaser, EQ, …)
  • 20 different effects.
  • 7 distortion types with warm, analog sound.
  • Programmable arpeggiator, step LFO and trancegate.
  • BPM syncable.
  • IQM for clearer chords (intelligent microtuning).

Gladiator 2 is available now as an instrument plug-in for Windows and Mac (AU/VST) for 149 EUR / $199 USD. A demo version (10 minute time limited) can be downloaded from the product page.

Visit Tone2 for more information.

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  1. ronnie
    commented on Feb 18, 2009

    So what’s actually new in Gladiator 2?

    New features:

    • HCM3 synthesis engine
    • New quality mode: Ultra provides 2x oversampling for modulation sources
    • New quality mode: Linear provides highest precision rendering with linear phase
    • Postprocessing filter for rendering with linear phase: Smaller frequency falloff above 12 kHz
    • Psychoacoustical postprocessing for warmer sound
    • FX Mix knob for dry/wet mixing of the effect section
    • 6657 additional OSC waveforms
    • New random, copy and paste buttons for randomizing and copying OSC settings
    • New Modifier: phasemod for generating analogue, warm, noisy and supersaw sounds
    • Six new unison modes
    • Pan knobs for all oscillators and AM
    • Volume and filter shape knob for envelope shape selection
    • New Moog 25dB lowpass filter
    • 25 additional waveforms for OSC5
    • Semitone tuning, start, retrigger and loop knobs for OSC5
    • New effects: Phaser, Flanger 2, Superstrings, Talkbox, Reverb trance, Reverb real and 24dB LP, 12dB BP, 24 dB HP filters
    • Feedback delay section for morphing echo and filtered delay effects
    • Two additional ADSR Envelopes with shape selectors
    • Additional LFO (LFO4)
    • Key follow function for LFO
    • New modulation source: flipflop, triggers to -1 or 1 on NoteOn commands
    • 400+ new presets

      Changed and improved:

    • Improved performance: Faster preprocessing
    • Improved random function
    • Maximum number of voices has been increased to 256
    • Faster patch changes
    • Low frequency OSCs are calculated with higher precision
    • Improved frequency response for filters

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