Cloud sync & storage

Axion Cloud is an optional subscription ($4/month or $32/year) that sits on top of Pro. Everything Axion does locally stays free or one-time-Pro; Cloud adds the things that only make sense with a server behind them — your library following you between machines, history you can roll back to, and private sharing. It's entirely opt-in: nothing syncs anywhere until you subscribe and sign in.

NOTE Cloud is about convenience, not lock-in. Your presets and captures always live locally first; Cloud mirrors them. If a subscription lapses, your local library is untouched — you simply stop syncing.

Signing in

Cloud rides on the same license key as Pro. Activate Axion (Settings → account), and once your subscription is live, sync turns on automatically. The Cloud entitlement is checked on startup and refreshed periodically, then cached as a local lease — so a brief offline spell never locks you out, and a lapsed subscription expires gracefully without a surprise mid-session cutoff.

The plugin is a read-only consumer of your account — it doesn't run background sync inside your DAW. Use the web app or Axion Desktop as the machines that read and write Cloud.

Preset sync across machines

With Cloud on, your presets sync in the background. Save a preset on your studio desktop, open Axion on your laptop, and it's there. Edits, renames, and deletes all propagate.

Sync is last-write-wins per preset: the most recent save is the one that survives. If the same preset is edited on two machines before they sync, Axion detects the clash and surfaces a conflict notice rather than silently dropping a change, so you can keep the version you want. This isn't real-time co-editing — it's reliable personal sync across your own devices.

Presets reference NAM captures and IRs by hash, not by embedding them, so syncing is fast and light regardless of how heavy your captures are. (The captures themselves sync separately — see below.)

Version history

Every Cloud-synced preset keeps a version history — each change you save is snapshotted (up to the most recent 50). Open a preset's ⋯ menu → Version history to browse past versions and restore any one of them. Restoring doesn't destroy anything: it brings the old version back as a new current version, so the history stays intact and you can always step forward again.

This is the safety net for "I tweaked this for an hour and liked it better two tweaks ago."

Private preset gallery

Pro lets you publish presets to public share links (axion.cab/preset/…). Cloud adds private visibility: a preset you mark private gets a share link that only you can open — anyone else (or anyone guessing the URL) gets a plain "not found." It's the same share mechanism, scoped to your account, for presets you want in the cloud and reachable from your own devices without putting them in the public gallery. You can flip a preset between public and private at any time.

NAM cloud storage

Your NAM library can follow you across devices too — with an important split by origin:

• Your own captures (files you imported or captured yourself) are stored as private files in Axion's cloud and stream back to any device you sign in on. Soft limit of 50 of your own captures to start.
• TONE3000 captures follow as references, not stored files. Axion never re-hosts third-party capture weights — instead, each device re-downloads them from your own TONE3000 account. A reference carries the tone, model, license, and attribution, so the rehydrated capture shows the same credit as the original.

In the NAM library panel, the Cloud tab lists what's in your cloud library; the ↑ Cloud button on one of your own local captures uploads it, and a TONE3000 capture offers ↑ Save to register it as a reference. Clicking a cloud entry brings it down to the current machine (downloading your own file, or re-fetching a TONE3000 reference under your account).

NOTE A capture you imported before updating Axion may show its ↑ Cloud button disabled with a "re-import" hint — older library entries didn't keep the original file bytes needed to upload with the right identity. Re-import the .nam once and it's uploadable.

Early-access builds

Cloud subscribers get early-access builds — the next release, a little ahead of everyone else, so you can try new features and send feedback before they're final. It's opt-in via a Settings toggle when an early build is available.

What Cloud is not

• Not required. Free and Pro are fully usable with zero cloud. Cloud is additive.
• Not real-time collaboration. Sync is personal, across your own devices; it's not multi-user live editing.
• Not a capture marketplace. Cloud NAM storage is your personal locker, not a place to browse or distribute others' captures.

For where your data lives and what does (and doesn't) leave your machine, see Loading a NAM model and Sharing a preset.