Kilohearts Ultimate vs MeldaProduction MCompleteBundle

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.

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.