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Gladiator 4

€149 / $189
Gladiator
Gladiator 4 by Tone2 Audiosoftware is a Virtual Instrument Audio Plugin and a Software Application for macOS and Windows. It functions as a VST Plugin, an Audio Units Plugin, a VST 3 Plugin and a Standalone Application.
Product
Version
4.0
PC: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 / 11 (32-bit or 64-bit)
Plugin formats: 32-bit VSTi, 64-bit VSTi, VST3, Standalone
Product
Version
4.0
Mac: macOS 10.7 or higher / macOS 11 / macOS 12 / macOS 13
32-bit Intel or 64-bit Intel or M1 or M2
Plugin formats: VSTi, Audio Unit (AUi), VST3, Standalone, Universal Binary
Native support for M1 and M2
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The award-winning Gladiator is a popular synthesizer which is used for a large number of professional productions. It provides a groundbreaking approach to sound generation. It's exclusive HCM-synthesis covers a new and unique aural territory.

Overview:

  • Innovative, new synthesis method (HCM).
  • Unique sounds which no other synthesizer can create.
  • Huge sonic range.
  • High-end quality: Warm, crystal clear & rich sound.
  • One of the most successful software synthesizers.
  • Has been used in a vast number of movies and chart hits.
  • Different synthesis methods can be combined freely.
  • 40 filter types and 37 effects are included.
  • You can select from four different interface sizes.
  • Boundless possibilities.
  • Psychoacoustic processing.
  • Low CPU and high reliability.
  • Over 1200 sounds from professionals.
  • Handbook in 5 languages.
  • Good value for money.
  • Flexibility, expandability.

Synthesis

Gladiator is a very powerful synthesizer, which supports an exhaustive list of synthesis methods. Most synthesis types can be combined freely to create new and exciting sounds. Synthesis types supported by Gladiator are:

  • Tone2's exclusive Harmonic-Content-Morphing (HCM).
  • Frequency Modulation (FM).
  • Pulse Width Modulation (PWM).
  • Substractive.
  • Re-synthesized instruments.
  • Vocoder sounds.
  • Oscillator Sync.
  • Phase Distortion.
  • Amplitude Modulation (AM).
  • Phase Modulation (PM).
  • Waveshaping.
  • Super-saw.
  • Additive spectra.
  • Sampled noises and plucks.
  • Unison.
  • How does HCM-synthesis work?

The award-winning HCM-synthesis is exclusive to Gladiator and not available from any other company. It is based on a wide range of exciting waveforms, wavetables, resynthesized samples, voices and natural sounds. The harmonic structure can be modified with 10 modules and 132 different algorithms to alter the sound. A powerful randomize-function allows the creation of an unlimited number of musically useful and unheard sounds with a single mouse-click.

Gladiator supports up to 18 oscillators per voice with stacking, 4x stereo unison and crystal clear sound-quality.

Sounds

Gladiator ships with an inspiring library of over 1200 outstanding presets from professional sound-designers. A variety of expansions is available to extend Gladiator's features and preset library. All sounds are arranged into categories for a quick and easy access to the sound you need.

Filters

The filter section comes with top-quality stereo-filters. Many of them are exclusive to Tone2 products. Gladiator ships with 40 different filter types: Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass, Vocals, Comb, EQ, FM, AM, Phaser, Re-sample, Analog, ...

Effects

Gladiator comes with an impressive selection of stereo effects. 37 different units are included, all carefully crafted to offer the highest quality possible, such as Reverbs, Delays, Flanger, Phaser, Chorus, Ensemble, Rotary, Bitcrusher, Talkbox, Ringmod, Dolby Prologic II surround encoding, Waveshaper, Pingpong, Filters and so on.

Modulation

Gladiator has a powerful, user-friendly and flexible modulation section. Four fast envelopes add punch to your sounds. There are 22 different LFOs available, which can be synced to your track's BPM-rate. The Step LFO's design was inspired by step-sequencers and can be used to create rhythmic sequences and trance-gates.

Psychoacoustic processing

A special post-processing module in Gladiator mimics the workings of the human ear. It creates deeper basses and adds transparency.

The innovative phase-modifier in the oscillator-section is based on the latest discoveries in phonetic science. It makes a digital waveform sound warm, silky or punchy.

Gladiator offers several micro-tuning modes, which make chords sound more harmonic, fat and transparent.

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Latest User Reviews

Average user rating of 4.67 from 3 reviews
Gladiator 4

Reviewed By Collusion [all]
July 30th, 2011
Version reviewed: 2.3 on Windows

This is one powerful beast of a synth. My Wavestation and MicroWAVE are quivering in their rackmounts! :)

Sound quality is top notch, though I have found certain combinations of filter/frequency/waveform do lead to unintentional distortion if not treated with proper respect - in this, it does behave in a manner akin to some of my older analogue hardware synths.

The new modulation matrix provides a great many new possibilities. Even without using the excellent built in arpeggiator, it is capable of complex pseudo phrase sequencing sounds courtesy of the Step LFO and with the proper programming - wave sequencing, vector synthesis and a whole lot more.

Although the provided presets were not to my taste, I found programming new sounds easy.

Fantastic and highly recommended. :)
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Gladiator 4

Reviewed By [all]
November 7th, 2008
Version reviewed: 1.2.2 on Windows

This synth is a masterpiece.

It clearly stands out of the large crowd of VST synths and is one of bests synths out there. A monster like this one could never have been build in hardware because it would cost $xxxxx.

Sound
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Clean, warm, very versatile, huge sonic range. It fit very well to the mix. There are some excellent dance presets, but it can do a lot more. You can for example morph a saxophone to a piano.
A lot of synthesis methods can be done with this beast: FM, AM, Substractive, Additive, Phase distortion, HCM ...

Interface
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The large interface is very usefull and quite easy to use. The synth is easy to tweak. The GUI seems to be rendered with shadows and reflections. It gives a very professional look. There are 'lighting' buttons all over the UI.

Features
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There is nearly nothing that it can't do.

Presets
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700 factory presets. They have been done by pros. There are no duplicates or very similar sounds.

Value for money
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This was by best buy in 2008.

Stability
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Very nice: It automatically switches to standby if it outputs no sound. This feature allows you to load dozens of Gladiators at the same time. The plugs works fine ony my hosts. There is also a demo versuion available for download.
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Gladiator 4

Reviewed By [all]
June 3rd, 2008
Version reviewed: 1.2.2 on Windows

There is a lot of hype around this VSTi/AU. I was wondering why there are still no reviews.

I have bought it in January. Since then i have tested this beast deeply. I have been doing a lot of sounddesign and productions.

User interface:
Newbies could be swamped by the huge amount of knobs. That's why the interface can be shrinked and only the patch browser is visibe.
The UI is heaven for sounddesigners. It is non-cluttered and all controls are on one srceen. It uses rendered graphics in 3d style.

Sound:
The most versatile and best sounding VST synth i know (yes it is a real synth and NO rompler!).
Very clean, warm, from analog to digital. HCM gives also a large amount of 'uniqueness' to it.
It is somewhere between Virus, Filzmo and Wavestation.

Features:
Lots of features. Maybe even to much for newbies.

Patches:
750 presets done by professional sounddesigners. They are a good basis for further mods.

Docs:
105 pages manual translated into various languages. Reading this definitely takes time! There are also tutorials in the manual and as patches.

Support:
I have written 3 mails to support, because i had trouble with my soundcard. Tone2 answered within 24 hours.

Value for money:
149 euros is not cheap. But it's well worth the money if you realize how powerfull this synth is.

Stability:
I had trouble with Cubase with Gladiator v1.1 because Cubase saved all 750 (!) presets in the song and the project files were several MB. This did not happen in other hosts. IMHO it is was Steinberg's fault. Tone2 has fixed this with the free update to v1.2.2 within 2 weeks.
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