Ability to preview captures and presents ahead of downloading. Would be neat if over the mobile app, desktop, or through QC. I would like to reserve my download space and organization to just those I know I will like to keep verses having to download furst and later delete hundreds of tests.
Yep. This is possible with many of the software amp modelers that integrate with the hardware: Yamaha THR, Bias Amp, etc. Seems cumbersome to have to download it before you know you want it on your system. +1
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Where users are combining other IRâs etc, it would be good if it referenced them or included links to the other items so you donât have to pick through after downloading to find that you need two or three other items. I think I have seen this posted elsewhere. Also the ability to rate AND add comments to uploaded submissions would be great.
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Agreed. It could become quite lawless out there if thereâs no form of community quality control.
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agree. this is the one feature that I miss from the PG BIAS ecosystem.
using a capture block on the grid, a way to hit âpreview/auditionâ on a capture in the cloud and have it just pop up in the capture block, then you decide to save it to a user slot if itâs worth keepingâŚ
âŚas an alternative tonal browsing technique to downloading fifty at a time and going through them all to find good ones.
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You mean, like a block in your preset that would be just a preview of what you were browsing in the app? I think thatâs a great idea; sometimes you donât need the whole preset preview, but youâd like to have a way to just preview the cloud capture in your already-made preset.
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Something allowing to listen to the preset or capture on your phone or desktop before you star it. For amp captures, and add an ir option while previewing
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I think it would be nice to preview captures and/or presets within the mobile app and desktop editing software. Users could upload a short clip for others to hear before they download the capture/preset.
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The current process of browsing presets on cortex cloud is super cumbersome and makes discovering new sounds pretty hard. Searching something on one device (mobile), then selecting it, then finding that selected item on the QC, downloading it, maybe fix missing captures and then being able to hear it is way too much iteration time.
Ideally it should work like on the Bias FX from Positive Grid or similar where you can select a preset on your mobile device for previewing and then it automatically loads that on the device.
This will probably require some extra connection through Bluetooth or a possibility to control the device over the air (wifi), but without that the Cortex Cloud feels pretty useless.
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@AlanW thank you for being diligent on identifying the duplicate feature request posts. All duplicates have been merged back to this one 
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Iâm not familiar with other modelers, so maybe Iâm adding nothing new to the table, but another interesting possibility is to have generic short DI clips like âHB Open Chordsâ, âStraty Blues Lickâ, âDowntune Chugâ etc, so that as you browse, each preset/capture you click is auto-fed with the chosen prerecorded DI, and you immediately hear how it sounds.
So letâs say you are looking for a bluesy thing, you choose âStraty Blues Lickâ, then browse through presets, and your experience is something like ânaah, too thin⌠mmm too hot⌠a bit muddy⌠uh, wait, that might workâ, then you can either preview it as suggested here or download it.
Think of it like the experience of running a loop and scrolling through blocks or changing effect parameters in a DAW until you hone in on something you like.
Maybe you can use pre-recorded âfactoryâ DIâs in different styles or record your own and use it for browsing.
Unless Iâm reinventing the wheel, I think it can be a very efficient way of navigating the cloud.
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correct me if im wrong, but isnât this one solved now in 2.0?
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Iâd love having something like thisâŚbetter yet, let me upload a DI wav file to listen to the capture to (limited to 20s or something).
Yes and no. You can preview prior to saving but you still are technically downloading prior to previewing.
Not sure thereâs any way around that honestly, not if you want to try with YOUR guitar/gear. You could do generic DI samples or something but thatâs no promise of how things sound in your environment
Since we are browsing presets beeing logged into our NDSP account, it could be great if we could upload, say, 5 short ârawâ DI clips that could be used to âpreviewâ presets.
But, thechnically, I donât think that it is possible, because the preset data themselves are not sufficient to generate the final sound. (they are merely âinstructionsâ for the Quad Cortex to load specific components into a chain)
The final sound come from the Quad Cortex algorithmes, and - unless NDSP has a âQuad Cortex Simulatorâ software component - I donât think that the Web Server could recreate those âfinal soundâ purely using softwareâŚ
So, the current implementation is the best we could have right nowâŚ
What would be enhanced, is the way we are browsing presets:
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A âstarring/appreciation systemâ would be nice anyway , it would allow the users to ârankâ the presets (because the number of downloads is not related to the quality of the preset ⌠most of the time, I download a preset, listen to it, donât like it and delete it immediatelyâŚ.)
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On the QC, It would be nice to have the ability to have a âvirtual filesystemââ that allow us to create folders/subfolders as a way to manage our data (Presets, IR, Captures, and so onâŚ). The 2.0 search is a step in the right direction, but it is not implemented everywere, and - for the IR for exemple - it is not so useful because the filenames are somewhat cryptic ⌠If we could place our IR into virtual folders it would be great the us, the user, without impacting the QC itself⌠(I know it is not so simple, because two identically named files could be stored into 2 separate folders, which makes sense for a human, but for the QC if would be confusing. And if the QC would reference files by their âvirtual folder locationâ, when a user move a file or rename a folder it would break any preset referencing the items âŚ.) - sorry for the disgression !
I would be ok and probably prefer the audition after download.
I could download x-amount and be able to audition offline.
The wifi on my unit is horrible.
Sometimes not connecting or even finding my wifi 5â from the router. I have 2 internet services in my house too, both with 2.4ghz access points.
But any audition option would be much appreciated
Yes please. It makes so much sense to be able to audition or at least hear a clip.