Tone2 have released State of Art an expansion pack for Gladiator 2. Here's what they have to say about it...
State of Art adds exciting new features and a collection of 315 ingeniously programmed sounds by 8 professional sound designers.
It contains unrivaled sounds which can exclusively be created with the innovative HCM synthesis. The presets are suitable for a wide range of genres including Ambient, Experimental, Progressive, Atmosphere, Film Score, Chillout, EDM, Dance, Trance and Electronica.
The State of Art Expansion
State of Art adds exciting new features and a collection of 315 ingeniously programmed sounds by 8 professional sound designers.
It contains a large number of unrivaled sounds which can exclusively be created with Tone2's innovative HCM synthesis.
The presets are suitable for a wide range of genres including Ambient, Experimental, Progressive, Atmosphere, Film Score, Chillout, EDM, Dance, Trance and Electronica.
A must have if you're looking for new sounds, or want to expand Gladiator with more features.
Expansion highlights:
- A selection of 315 inspiring, unique presets aimed at miscellaneous genres of electronic music
- 26 additional waves for OSC5
- 8 additional high-end filter types
- 2 additional analog modeled distortion types
- Waveshaper
- Trancegate
- 7 additional effects
Additional waveforms
The 315 new presets of the expansion make use of 26 new waveforms which are available for OSC5. They extend Gladiator's sonic range with more human voices, athmos, noises, percussives, samples, scratches, hits, synthethic waves, effects, etc
Filters
- LP Dirty1 / LP Dirty2: Two analog modeled non linear filters
- LP Voca1/ LP Voca2: Two non-linear filters with resonance which sounds similar to the human voice.
- BP Moog: An analog modeled Moog bandpass with soft resonance.
- EQ Wide: Soft sounding equalizer which attenuates a broad spectrum.
- Allpass: A mystic filter that passes all frequencies but alters the phase of the signal.
- Comb-: A comb filter which is useful for flanging or physical modeling sounds.
Distortion
- Asymmetric: This distortion simultes non-linearities of old gear.
- Soft saturation: This distortion sounds like an old analogue tube.
Synthesis modules
The innovative 'Waveshape2' dynamic processor offers an unique and clean sound and adds some kind of vocaloid character.
Effects
- Trancegate: The impressive and easy to use stereo Trancegate effect adds 22 different rhythmic patterns to your sounds with a single mouse click. It automatically syncs with your song.
- Reverb Ultra: Is a high-end-quality reverb algorithm, which sounds very soft and diffuse. It is especially suitable for very large rooms and sculpting the proper ambience.
- 3 Reflection types: The three different reflection types simulte the early reflections of small rooms, reverse echoes and gated reverbs.
- Aliaser: This LoFi retro-effect drastically alters the sound or adds the mojo of old computer games from the 90s.
- Stereo Enhance: Is a stereo width effect, which expands the stereo field, while keeping the bass intact.
Sounds
The 315 sounds for this expansion were created by 8(!) professional sound designers: Markus Feil, Bastiaan van Noord, Bryan 'Xenos' Lee, Alusio de Lima, Dajan Izzo, Massimo Bosco, Marco Scherer and Patchen Preston.
Pricing and Availability:
$69
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