Gladiator 1 versus Gladiator 2 – what's new?

Most important changes:

• The HCM3 engine extends HCM synthesis with complex phase manipulation. It provides warmer sounds, noisy sounds, 'analogue' sounds and a bigger sonic range.
• At least 300 new presets; Improved and sorted 'old' factory presets
• New quality mode: 'Ultra' provides 2x oversampling for audio and modulation sources with psychoacoustical postprocessing
• New quality mode: 'Linear' provides highest precision rendering with linear phase for audiophiles and scientific applications
• 6657 additional waveforms OSC 1A-4D
• 25 additional waveforms for OSC 5
• OSC 5 can be played as additional subosc
• New and improved filters
• 6 new unision modes
• Separate pan for OSCs
• Improved modulation: More sources, more destinations, more routings, more slots in mod matrix, 2 Aux envelopes, more LFOs with more features, double precision rendering, shapers for envelopes
• 10 additional effects

How can i upgrade Gladiator 1 to Gladiator 2?      

A valid Gladiator 1 license is required. You can find the upgrade here.
The upgrade includes a huge number of new features and an embedded expansion with new sounds.
Gladiator 2 is 100% downward compatible. You are able to load all your old songs with improved sound quality.

Detailed description:
 

Top section:

● 300 new sounds
● Improved factory patches
● New quality mode: 'Ultra' provides 2x oversampling for modulation sources
● New quality mode: 'Linear' provides highest precision rendering with linear phase for audiophiles
● Psychoacoustical postprocessing for warmer sound
● Improved performance
● Improved random function
● Maximum voice number has been increased to 256
● New knob: 'FX MIX' allows dry/wet mixing of effects
● Faster patch changes
● Reduced glitches on patch changes
● Postprocessing filter for rendering with linear phase: Smaller frequency falloff above 12 kHz
● Improved robustness
● Fixed typo in At(h)mos


OSC section - OSC 1A-4D:

The HCM3 synthesis engine extends HCM with complex phase manipulation and provides warmer, more 'analogue' sound.

● 6657 additional waveforms
● Improved sound: Low frequency OSCs are calculated with higher precision
● Improved performance: Faster preprocessing
● New buttons: 'random' for OSCs. Randomizes OSC1/2 or OSC3/4 settings.
● New buttons: 'copy' OSC
● New buttons: 'paste' OSC
● New buttons: 'resynthesis' (part of an expansion)
● New buttons: 'vocoder' (part of an expansion)
● New knob: 'phasemod value'. Sets the depth of phase monipulatuion
● New Modifier: 'phasemod'. It generates analogue, warm, noisy and supersaw sounds.

Additional modes for 'phasemod':
● 'Noise': Adds white noise to OSCs
● 'Noise high': Adds high frequency noise to OSC
● 'Noise granular': Adds grain noise to OSC
● 'Multi slow': Generates slow supersaw sound from OSC
● 'Multi fast': Generats fast supersaw sound from OSC
● 'Multi detuned': Generates detuned supersaw sound from OSCs
● 'Fuzzy slow': Adds slow fuzzy sound to OSC
● 'Fuzzy fast': Adds fast fuzzy sound to OSC
● 'Odd/even slow': Slow PWM-like spectral detuning for OSC
● 'Odd/even fast': Fast PWM-like spectral detuning for OSC
● 'Vibrato strong hilbert': Strong vibrato on low frequencies
● 'Vibrato cos norm': Classic vibrato on all frequencies
● 'Vibrato tri/saw': Triangular shaped vibrato on all frequencies
● 'Static smear': Softens sound

OSC section - OSC5:

● 25 additional waveforms
● OSC5 can be played as subosc
● New knob: 'SEMI' for semitone tuning
● New knob: 'START' sets starting offset of sample
● New button: 'RET' retrigger/not retrigger sample
● New button: 'LOOP' loop/not loop sample
● New knob: 'Load' loads a wav file to OSC5 (part of an expansion)


Filter section:

● New Filter: Moog Lowpass with 24 dB
● New knob: 'SHAPE' manipulates envelope shape
● Improved sound of LP 30 dB: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of LP 30 dB Fat: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of LP 12 dB: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of LP 20 dB x2: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of LP 20 dB x1.5: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of LP 40 dB elliptic: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of LP 30: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of HP 30 dB: Improved frequency response. No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of HP 12 dB: Improved frequency response. No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of BP 15 dB: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of BP 6 dB Fat: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of BP Para: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of EQ Low shelf: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of EQ High shelf: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of EQ Peek: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Vocals 1: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Vocals 2: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Vocals A: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Vocals E: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Vocals I: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Vocals O: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Vocals U: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of Phaser: No glitches on fast cutoff changes
● Improved sound of M-Shape: No glitches on fast cutoff changes


Sound section:

6 new unision modes:
● '4x mono oct': Stacks 2 mono voices in 2 octaves
● '4x stereo oct': Stacks 2 stereo voices in 2 octaves
● '4x mono stack': Stacks 2 mono voices in 3 octaves
● '4x stereo stack': Stacks 2 stereo voices in 3 octaves
● '4x mono stack2': Stacks 2 mono voices in 4 octaves
● '4x stereo stack2': Stacks 2 stereo voices in 4 octaves


Mixer section:

● New knob: 'PAN' for OSC1A-2D
● New knob: 'PAN' for OSC3A-4D
● New knob: 'PAN' for AM
● New knob: 'PAN' for OSC5A-5B

Volume section:

New knob: 'SHAPE' manipulates envelope shape for more punchy or softer sound
 

Effect section:

● Improved sound of Flanger
● New effect: Phaser
● New effect: Flanger 2
● New effect: Super strings (16x stereo Chorus)
● New effect: Pitch shifter
● New effect: 24 dB Lowpass for effect section
● New effect: 12 dB Bandpass for effect section
● New effect: 24 dB Highpass for effect section
● New effect: Talkbox vocal filter for effect section
● New effect: 'Reverb trance' is a reverb with detuned sound
● New effect: 'Reverb real' is a classic sounding reverb

New section - 'Feedback':

The new feedback delay effect applies to the effect section of FX1 and FX2. It is usefull for morphing echo sounds and filtered delay effects.
● New knob: 'GAIN' sets feedback amount
● New selector: 'FX FEEDBACK DELAY' defines delay amount
● New button: 'CLIP' clips feedback

LFO section:

● Additional LFO: LFO4
● New button: 'KEY' enables key follow for LFO frequency (useful for FM sounds)
● New button: 'LFO 1/2' selector
● Improved Trancegate sound

New section - 'Aux envelopes'

Two additonal Aux envelopes can be routed in the mod matrix.
● New button: 'AUX ENV 1/2' selector
● New knob: 'AUX ENVELOPE ATTACK'
● New knob: 'AUX ENVELOPE DECAY'
● New knob: 'AUX ENVELOPE SUSTAIN'
● New knob: 'AUX ENVELOPE RELEASE'
● New knob: 'AUX ENVELOPE FADE'
● New knob: 'AUX ENVELOPE SHAPE'

Mod matrix:

The number of available slots in the mod matrix has been increased from 6 to 12.
● New button: 'MOD MATRIX ENV 1/2' selector
● New modulation source: 'LFO 4'
● New modulation source: 'AUX ENV 1'
● New modulation source: 'AUX ENV 2'
● New modulation source: 'flipflop' triggers to -1 or 1 on noteOn commands
● New modulation destination: 'feedback' modulates feedback delay gain
● New modulation destination: 'pan12' modulates OSC1/2 pan
● New modulation destination: 'pan34' modulates OSC3/4 pan
● New modulation destination: 'panAM' modulates AM pan
● New modulation destination: 'pan5' modulates OSC5 pan
● New modulation destination: 'semi' modulates OSC5 semitones
● New modulation destination: 'fine' modulates OSC5 finetuning
● New modulation destination: 'start' modulates OSC5 start offset
● New modulation destination: 'modAmou7' modulates amount of slot7 in the mod matrix
● New modulation destination: 'modAmou8' modulates amount of slot8 in the mod matrix
● New modulation destination: 'modAmou9' modulates amount of slot9 in the mod matrix
● New modulation destination: 'modAmou10' modulates amount of slot10 in the mod matrix
● New modulation destination: 'modAmou11' modulates amount of slot11 in the mod matrix
● New modulation destination: 'modAmou12' modulates amount of slot12 in the mod matrix

GUI:

● The interface is rendered in higher quality with ambient occlusion.
● Brighter displays for better text display.
● New colors.