Eventide Anthology XII vs FabFilter Total Bundle

Eventide Anthology XII is a bundle of 32 plug-ins for audio mixing and mastering. It combines vintage hardware emulations with newer processors, including EQs, compressors, delays, reverbs, pitch changers, modulation effects, and distortion. The collection also covers dynamics, chorus, phaser, flanger, channel strip, and multi-effects, and supports external sidechain. Eventide highlights its patented Transient/Tonal splitting technology. Anthology XII adds 10 plug-ins to the prior Anthology bundle: three reverbs, three modulation effects, two pitch shifters, a distortion, and an EQ. Formats are AAX, AU, VST2, and VST3, with AU on macOS. It runs on Windows 10 or later, x64, or macOS 10.14 or later on Intel or Apple Silicon. An iLok account is required, but a physical dongle is not. Eventide says the plug-ins should work with compatible DAWs and lists Pro Tools, Ableton, Logic Pro, Cubase, FL Studio, and Reaper. Anthology XII costs $999, paid once; a 14-day trial is available, and there is no free plan.

FabFilter Total Bundle is a collection of 14 audio plug-ins for music production and audio processing on macOS and Windows. Its tools cover EQ, reverb, compression, multiband dynamics, limiting, de-essing, gating, distortion, delay, filtering, and synthesis. Listed formats include VST, VST3, Audio Units, CLAP, AAX Native, and AudioSuite; Windows downloads list VST, VST3, CLAP, and AAX, while macOS downloads are described as 64-bit plug-ins in all formats. Downloads are fully functional for a 30-day trial, after which a license key can unlock them. The bundle costs $1,069, paid once. A personal license can unlock the plug-ins on up to three computers used by the licensee. It includes free minor updates, but not new major versions or additions made to the bundle after purchase. FabFilter also describes an offline installation and registration option using an installer and license key transferred to the computer.