Eventide Anthology XII vs McDSP Everything Pack

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.

McDSP Everything Pack bundles McDSP plug-ins for music production, post production, live sound and game audio. Its collection spans equalizers, compressors, tape emulators, mastering limiters, multiband processors, reverbs, and dialog and spectral processors. Named plug-ins include 4020 Retro EQ, 6050 Ultimate Channel Strip, FilterBank, FutzBox, Revolver Convolution Reverb and SA-2 Dialog Processor. The pack supports AAX, AU and VST3 formats and works with DAWs that support them, including Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Cubase, Nuendo, FL Studio, Ableton Live, LUNA, Reaper, Sonar and Studio One. It runs on macOS and Windows 10 and 11, supports double precision processing and zero or ultra-low latency operation, and includes two activations per license. An iLok.com account is required; compatible options include iLok 2, iLok 3 and iLok Cloud. A 14-day free trial is available. Plans range from Native Annual, paid monthly at $14.99 a month, to HD Annual, paid yearly at $249.99 a year, with monthly and annual options in between. Version 7.0 no longer supports VST; v6 VST plug-ins will no longer be updated and will be uninstalled.