Available for download, Best Service Tone2 Gladiator 3 is a virtual instrument that expands upon the previous version (Gladiator 2) to provide you with multiple methods of synthesis, all of which can be combined and affected in a variety of ways. In addition to the old stalwarts in synthesis such as pulse width modulation (PWM) and frequency modulation (FM), Gladiator 3 also includes Tone2's proprietary Harmonic Content Morphing synthesis, which allows the harmonic content of an oscillator to morph over time by loading not just samples, but 256 spectral snapshots at once. Furthermore, you can blend up to five oscillators at any one time. Within an oscillator, you can control the start position and speed of the content morphing.
Gladiator 2 features over 1200 preset patches, as well as an arpeggiator, a step sequencer, and a variety of filters and effects, many of which can be synced to the tempo of your host DAW. This software is compatible with Mac and Windows platforms, and can operate in standalone mode (Windows only), as well as within AU and VSTi formats.
New Features in Gladiator 3
- New GUI, which is nearly twice as large
- Select from four different interface sizes
- New patch browser
- Information tags about patches displayed in patch browser
- New sound-quality mode (high-end)
- Context sensitive tool tips with detailed descriptions for all controls
- Rank patches by clicking on the stars in the patch browser
- 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 modes:
- Noise: Jumps to a random section
- V50%: Ping-pong-loops 50% of the spectrum
- V20%: Ping-pong-loops 25% of the spectrum
- Additional phase-modifiers:
- Zzzap: Sound like a laser
- Boing: Sound like a reverse laser
- Odd noise and Even noise: Adds noise to the spectrum
- Odd 90 and Even 90: Sounds similar to a sub-oscillator
- Extended semitone-range for the arpeggiator from -23 to +23
- Added cross-product compatibility: Selecting Save and then Export exports the sound of osc 1 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
Key Features at a Glance
- Advanced Harmonic Content Morphing (HCM Synthesis)
- FM
- AM
- PWM
- Sync
- Phase modulation
- Waveshaping
- Distortion
- Unison
- Resynthesized spectra
- Phase distortion
- Sample-noise oscillator
- 30,208 waveforms
- 18 OSCs per voice
- 40 different stereo filters
- 20 effects
- True stereo architecture
- Up to 324x oversampling
- Programmable ARP & STEP LFO / Trancegate effects
- BPM syncable
- Microtuning
- Equalizer
- Flexible routing
- 256 voice polyphony
Filters
Preset Patches
Effects
Modulation Section
Available Synthesis Types
- Tone2's proprietary Harmonic Content Morphing synthesis (HCM),
- Frequency modulation (FM)
- Pulse width modulation (PWM)
- Analog oscillators
- Resynthesized instruments
- Vocoder sounds
- Oscillator sync
- Phase distortion
- Amplitude modulation (AM)
- Phase modulation
- Waveshaping
- Super-saw
- Additive synthesis
