Tone2 Gladiator v3

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

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