The award-winning Gladiator is a popular synthesizer, which is used for a large number of professional productions. It offers 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

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