Tone2 has announced the release of the Dance & Trance Expansion, an expansion pack for Gladiator 2 designed by professional sound designers: Markus Feil, Bastiaan van Noord, Bryan 'Xenos' Lee, Alusio de Lima, Dajan Izzo, Massimo Bosco, Marco Scherer and Patchen Preston.

Dance & Trance includes new add-on features and a collection of 324 sounds, suitable for a wide range of genres including Dance, House, Trance, Ambient, Progressive, IDM, Pop and Electronica.

Expansion highlights:

• 324 unique presets aimed at miscellaneous genres of electronic music.
• Eight additional filter types: LP Dirty1, LP Dirty2, LP Voca1, LP Voca2, BP Moog, EQ Wide, Allpass and Comb-.
• Two additional distortion types: Asymmetric and Soft saturation.
• A new waveshaper with formant like characteristics.
• Stereo Trance Gate: featuring 22 patterns for rhythmic gate effects.
• Reverb Ultra: reverb ultra uses a new high-quality reverb algorithm, its soft and diffuse sound make it especially suitable for larger rooms and sculpting the proper ambience.
• Three reflection effects: early reflection, reverse reflection and gated reflection.
• Aliaser: a LoFi retro-effect that works by mirroring the signal's spectrum at the cutoff frequency.
• Stereo Enhance: a stereo width effect, equipped with a High-Shelf filter to expand the stereo field, while keeping the lower frequencies intact.

Dance & Trance is available now priced at €49 / $69.