Tone2 updates Gladiator to v2.1

5th June 2009

Tone2 has updated Gladiator to v2.1 for both Windows and Mac OS X.

Improvements in sound quality:

Drastically improved low notes oscillator sound.
Improved reverb sound: Softer and more diffuse reverb tails.
Improved psychoacustical processing.
Improved spectral slope of low frequencies to reduce gibbs effect for more 'analog' sound.
Improved sound quality of intelligent microtuning (IQM): Warmer sound for long release times.
Extended dB range of master volume knob.
Reworked existing factory presets: Warmer sound.

New features:

3 new phase modulators for analog sounding pulsewidth modulation: PWM, PWM alt, phase shift.
Added song position sync support for LFO 1/2 ('bpm' has to be set to 'on' and 'retrigger' to 'off').
Added split keyboard support; new modulation sources: Low keys, High keys.
Added new 'split' arp mode which applies ARP on high keys only and leaves low keys for basses.
18 new factory sounds.

Changes, fixes and improvements:

Faster loading time of PC full version.
Demo version: Nag Voice only every 9 minutes instead of every minute.
Improved host compatibility: Cubase 4 & 5, Orion, Fruity Loops, Logic.
Fixed (PC): Wrong version number was displayed in Cubase.
Fixed: Microglitch in volume envelope.
Fixed (Full version, Mac): 'Demoversion' instead of user name was displayed for 2 seconds after loading.
Fixed (PPC Mac): 'Spec format' and 'Spec clean' modifier could output silence.
Fixed (FUll version, Mac): 'save all' could crash Gladiator2.
Changed (Mac): Focus of mouseover when 'show editor' was set to 'off'.