Tone2 Gladiator v3.0 [WINDOWS]

Tone2 Gladiator v3.0

The award-winning Gladiator 3 is a popular synthesizer which is used for a large number of professional productions. It provides a groundbreaking approach to sound generation. It’s exclusive HCM-synthesis covers a new and unique aural territory.

The update to v3.0 is a major update, which is available for free for all Gladiator2 users. It includes a larger and resizable GUI, a patch browser, enhanced sound quality, a bigger sonic range, a more user-friendly interface and many new features. Gladiator3 is downward compatible. Existing song-projects and patches can be loaded without any further steps necessary. They will benefit from the enhanced sound quality.

New features:

• Created a new interface, which is nearly twice as large
• By clicking on ‘EDITOR SIZE’ you can select from four different interface sizes
• Added a comfortable, new patch browser
• New sound-quality mode ‘high-end’
• 18 additional unison modes with a diverse selection of chords
• Added context sensitive tooltips with detailed descriptions for all controls
• The patches can be ranked by clicking on the stars in the patch browser
• The patch rankings are stored within the file “Ranking.rnk”
• 6 additional lfo waveforms: “Stair 4 up”,”Stair 8 up”,”Stair 4 down”,”Stair 8 down”,”Stair 4 up/down”,”Stair 8 up/down”
• Added manuals in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian to the new help menu
• New loop mode “Noise”, which jumps to a random section
• New loop mode “\/50%”, which ping-pong-loops 50% of the spectrum
• New loop mode “\/25%”, which ping-pong-loops 25% of the spectrum
• 3 additional phase-modifiers “Zzzap”, which sound like a laser
• 3 additional phase-modifiers “Boing”, which sound like a reverse laser
• 2 additional phase-modifiers “Odd noise” and “Even noise”, which noisify the spectrum
• 2 additional phase-modifiers “Odd 90” and “Even 90”, which sound like a sub-oscillator
• Information tags about the patches are shown in the patch browser
• Extended halftone-range for the arpeggiator from -23 to +23
• Added cross-product-compatibility: Save->’Export…’ exports the sound of osc1 as an Icarus compatible wavetable in wav format
• Video tutorials can be shown from the help menu
• Updates and additional sounds can be accessed directly from the help menu
• 176 additional patches

Enhancements in sound:

• More linear frequency response for oscillators playing below 100Hz
• More precise timing for all sample-rates
• Replaced all micro-tuning algorithms with a better ones. The new ones are more subtle and sounds less ‘detuned’.
• The late-reverb-tail of ‘Reverb small’ sounds less detuned
• The late-reverb-tail of ‘Reverb large’ sounds less detuned
• The late-reverb-tail of ‘Reverb ultra’ sounds less detuned
• All effects do come with default settings now and are more useable
• Reworked factory patches

Enhancements for the interface:

• Re-rendered the old GUI with sharper texts
• The envelope’s attack, decay, and release time is displayed in seconds
• Registration screen is now also available in German
• Renaming a preset is more straightforward
• The version number now can be also shown from within help menu
• The updated credits can be shown by clicking on help menu
• The parameter info display is able to show longer texts now
• Mousewheel support for knobs and list selectors
• Double-clicking a knob or slider resets it to the default value
• More detailed spectrum display
• Manuals on the Mac now can be opened from within the plugin
• Better init patch
• Enhanced graphics
• After loading patch names are derived from the fxp file name
• Program name and file name are synced after saving a patch
• Added messages boxes with info for some possible errors
• Step speed is set to 1/1 BPM after initializing a patch
• English manual has been updated
• Many smaller enhancements
• Patches are now in alphabetical order

Changes:

• Loading and saving banks can now be accessed with a new menu called ‘load’ and ‘save’
• Renamed some parameters to be more consistent with the industry standards
• The envelope’s fade parameter now works as expected with long attack times
• Manuals in PDF format and Gladiatorskin.txt have been moved to Gladiator3_data
• On the Mac support files are now stored in /Library/Application Support/Tone2/Gladiator3_data/
• Updated some texts
• Enhanced hardware compatibility for midi program changes
• Some sound categories have been renamed

Fixes:

• The timing in 44Khz and 48Khz could have been out-of-sync if large block-sizes were used
• Fixed some typos
• Fixed a couple of wrong pixels
• Fixed a possible bug with ‘static’ loop mode
• Compatibility fix for the ‘m’ key
• Fixed a possible crash when the splash-screen was opened during closing

Gladiator is a very powerful synthesizer, which supports an exhaustive list of synthesis methods. Most synthesis types can be combined freely to create new and exciting sounds. Synthesis types supported by Gladiator are:

• Tone2’s exclusive Harmonic-Content-Morphing™ (HCM)
• Frequency Modulation (FM)
• Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)
• Substractive
• Re-synthesized instruments
• Vocoder sounds
• Oscillator Sync
• Phase Distortion
• Amplitude Modulation (AM)
• Phase Modulation (PM)
• Waveshaping
• Super-saw
• Additive spectra
• Sampled noises and plucks
• Unison