New from Tone 2 is Dance & Trance ($69 MSRP), an expansion sound pack for Gladiator 2 chock full of add-on features and 324 exclusive presets in dance, house, trance, ambient, progressive, IDM, pop, and electronica. As you can see, this pack is about more than just dance and trance.

Also included are numerous different filters, distortions, waveshapers, gate effects, reverbs, and more. The full features are as follows:

• Eight flter types: LP Dirty1, LP Dirty2, LP Voca1, LP Voca2, BP Moog, EQ Wide, Allpass, and Comb
• Two distortion types: Asymmetric and Soft Saturation
• A new waveshaper with formant-like characteristics
• Stereo Trance Gate with 22 patterns for rhythmic gate effects
• Reverb Ultra with a soft, diffused sound suitable for larger room ambience
• Three reflection effects: Early Reflection, Reverse Reflection, and Gated Reflection
• Aliaser, a lo-fi 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

The 324 Dance & Trance sounds are the best-ofs from a selection of more than 1,000 sounds 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. For more details, visit the official Tone 2 Web site.