Kilohearts Ultimate vs McDSP Everything Pack

Kilohearts Ultimate is a bundle of audio plugins for macOS and Windows, including the Phase Plant modular synthesizer, plugin hosts, effects, and Kilohearts Essentials. The listed products include Multipass, Snap Heap, Disperser, Faturator, Convolver, Filter Table, Shaper Table, Carve EQ, and Slice EQ. Phase Plant, Multipass, and Snap Heap use an open modular architecture for building instruments and effects. The included effects can run as regular DAW plugins or be combined and modulated as Snapins in a Snapin Host. The product page says a saved preset can be shared even if another person owns different Snapins. A DAW is required; documented system requirements include an x86 64-bit processor with SSE3, while macOS also supports Apple M processors. Kilohearts Ultimate costs $399, paid once and offers a 10-day trial. Content Banks are not included. Offline installers are available for Windows and Mac, with license keys required on the offline computer. Kilohearts Essentials is a free Snapins collection available with an account.

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.