Sharing a preset

A shared preset is a public URL that boots Axion straight into your exact tone. Drop the link in a forum, a Discord, a tweet — anyone clicking it hears the rig in their browser within seconds. No download, no plugin, no account. The .cab TLD makes the URL itself a tiny piece of branding every time it's shared.

What the recipient sees

When someone opens axion.cab/preset/<slug>:

1. The Axion app boots with that preset auto-loaded.
2. A brief overlay names the preset and its author — "Now playing: Modern Djent Rhythm by @username" — and fades after the first interaction.
3. They can adjust the rig freely from there. Their tweaks don't touch the published preset; they get a private copy.
4. If they want to keep their version, they save it locally. If they want to share their version back, they need Pro.

Everything in a shared preset plays back at full quality. The audio engine, the pedals, the cab, the analytical amp — all free. The asymmetric piece is on the sharing side: Pro publishes, free plays.

Publishing a preset (Pro)

Open the preset overflow menu (⋯ in the preset bar) and choose Share preset. The dialog asks for four things:

• Name — the human-readable label on the preset card.
• Link slug — what appears in the URL. Auto-suggested from the name; you can override it. 3–60 characters, lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens.
• Author handle — shown as @handle on the card and overlay.
• Description (optional) — one line for the gallery.
• Tags (optional) — up to eight, comma-separated.

Submit and the worker validates your licence, runs a profanity filter on the text fields, checks the slug isn't reserved, and persists the preset. You get back the live URL — copy it from the success screen.

NOTE Slug rules: lowercase ASCII, digits, and hyphens only; no leading/trailing hyphens; not on the reserved list (single words like app, pricing, docs, two-letter slugs, etc.). The dialog rejects bad slugs client-side before hitting the server.

Managing what you've shared

The same overflow menu has Your shared presets. The dialog lists every preset published by your licence — name, slug, public URL, edit, delete. Deletion is immediate and permanent; the slug frees up the moment it completes.

Edits update the name, description, and tags. The slug is fixed once published — changing it would break links already in the wild. If you need a different slug, delete and republish.

What happens with Pro-only features in a shared preset

Some pieces of a rig need a Pro licence to recreate exactly. Recipients without Pro don't lose the preset, but they hear a graceful fallback:

• NAM model — recipients hear the capture exactly if they already have that same .nam imported. The NAM binary is never transmitted — only its hash reference — so if they don't have it (e.g. a commercial capture you bought), they hear the analytical amp voicing baked into the preset's fallback, with an inline prompt to import the original capture. Loading NAM captures is free on every tier.
• MIDI bindings — ignored; the rest of the preset still plays.
• Stereo, looper, tempo-synced delay — preset loads, those features just aren't engaged.

The recipient still gets a tone in every case — not a broken preset.

Limits

Per Pro licence:

• Up to ~50 published presets at a time. Delete to free slots.
• Upload rate limit of around 10 uploads per hour. Generous for actual use; tight enough to deter automation.
• 16 KB rig-data cap per preset. Well above what any real rig consumes — exists to block accidental NAM-binary smuggling.

If you hit any of these and they get in the way of real use, email hi@axion.cab.