Tone2 announced that Gladiator 2 will be released before the end of the year. Priced at €149 / $199, anyone who purchases Gladiator 1 now will receive Gladiator 2 for free upon release.

Improvements and new features (Gladiator 1 vs Gladiator 2):

• Improved sound: "Ultra quality rendering".
• Many new patches.
• 6,657 additional waveforms.
• HCM3 synthesis engine.
• Phase modifier for analogue, warm, noisy and supersaw sounds.
• 9 new effects: Autopan, tremolo, ring modulator, phaser, flanger 2, super strings, pitch shifter, reverb trance, reverb real.
• 2nd filter (effect section): Lowpass, bandpass, highpass, talkbox.
• 6 new unison modes.
• Additional subosc (OSC5) with 21 new waveforms.
• 256 voices.
• Improved filters, additional Moog filter.
• Feedback-delay module.
• 2 additional envelopes.
• 4 additional envelope shapers.
• Additional LFO.
• Improved mod matrix with 12 slots and new routings.
• Improved random patch generation.
• Improved user interface.
• Pan for each OSC.