Eventide Anthology XII vs MeldaProduction MCompleteBundle

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.

MeldaProduction MCompleteBundle is a collection of effects and instruments for music production, mixing and mastering. The product page says its installer reports 112 plugins, while the pricing page describes the subscription bundle as containing 121. Its effect categories include analysis, creative effects, dynamics, equalization, filtering, limiting, pitch, reverb, stereo and time-based processing. Features include automatic gain compensation, a safety brickwall limiter, A/B comparison, 64-bit processing and oversampling from 1x to 1024x. Sound design tools include MIDI learn, four modulators, multiparameters and smart randomization; presets can be shared through MeldaProduction servers. Processing supports mono, stereo, mid/side, up to 8-channel surround and up to 64-channel ambisonics. Plugins are available in VST, VST3, AU and AAX formats for compatible 64-bit Windows and Mac hosts, including Ableton Live, Cubase, Logic, Pro Tools and Reaper. A fully functional 15-day trial is available. Buyers can subscribe monthly or annually, or purchase once; subscriptions include future plugins added to the bundle at no extra charge.