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How does HCM-synthesis work?

The award-winning HCM-synthesis is not just a marketing buzzword. It is a synthesis that is exclusive to Gladiator and not available from any other company.

Our engineers analyzed how the spectra of natural instruments, voices, and synthesized sounds evolve dynamically. For each sound, they created 256 temporal spectral snapshots. As time passes, these snapshots change dynamically. These spectra can be morphed, looped, and manipulated in a wide variety of ways. In addition, the harmonic content can be modified with 10 modules and 132 different algorithms to change the sound. The sum of all this results in a virtually unlimited number of different sounds.

A powerful randomization function allows you to create an unlimited number of musically useful and unheard-of 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.