Dangerous Music CONVERT-AD+
The Dangerous Music CONVERT-AD+ is the first officially certified plugin developed together with Dangerous Music Digital®, Studio DMI, and Acustica Audio. Faithfully modeled after the acclaimed high-headroom hardware converter, it reproduces its distinctive sonic signature, dynamic behavior, and unique tone-shaping capabilities—bringing you intentional limiting attitude, the musical warmth of EMPHASIS, and the refined harmonic texture of X-FORMER II. Expanded control enables meticulous, immediate feedback over gain fracturing, overshoot, and LUFS—putting you in command of expression, dynamics and emotion. The Dangerous Music CONVERT-AD+ plugin is available in VST3, AAX, and AU plugin formats, and is compatible with all major DAWs on macOS and Windows systems.
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Key Features
X-FORMER II

Hammond transformers add weight, depth and authentic analog richness.

GAIN FRACTURING

Push "past" 0 dBFS with controlled, musical digital clipping.

EMPHASIS

Analog-style EQ/comp for warmth, presence and musical harmonic color.

CLIP GUARD®

Drive levels hard without triggering false digital clipping alerts.

CUSTOM METERING

Hardware-accurate metering with zoom views for precise dynamics control.

DUAL SOURCE INPUT

Two switchable stereo inputs for instant A/B of chains and signals.

AUTO SAMPLE RATE

Displays active sample rate to assure session-hardware alignment.

CALIBRATION

Three calibration levels for accurate metering and flexible gain staging.

WORDCLOCK

Bypass wordclock to introduce musical micro-jitter as a creative texture.

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Technical Information
  • Supported formats: VST3, AAX, and AU.
  • Available sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, and 96 kHz.
  • Compatible with Windows 10 24H2 and Windows 11 25H2.
  • Compatible with macOS 10.15 (Catalina) to macOS 26 (Tahoe)
  • Native Apple Silicon support (Rosetta not supported).