Quad Cortex Captures & Presets

Our packs work on Quad Cortex and Mini Cortex. On Nano Cortex you can use the amp and cab content of every pack, but not the full presets: Nano Cortex doesn't load external presets, so effects, scenes and routing don't transfer. Amp packs are fully usable on Nano Cortex, while preset and artist packs work there only in their amp and cab part. The product page of every pack shows its compatibility.

Automatically, through Cortex Cloud. When you select the Quad Cortex version, a field asks for your Cortex Cloud username: enter your username, not your email. Then follow "BoutiqueTones" on Cortex Cloud: both accounts must follow each other, as required by Neural DSP. A few minutes after your order our system follows you and shares the presets: if you already follow us, they usually arrive within 15 minutes. If you follow us later, they arrive at our next automatic check, within a few hours. Our Quad Cortex Support Guide shows every step.

Make sure you are following "BoutiqueTones" and that the username in your order is exactly your Cortex Cloud username, capital letters included. Then look under Shared With Me on Cortex Cloud or on your Quad Cortex. If you started following us after your order, the pack arrives at our next automatic check, within a few hours. If you paid with an express checkout such as Apple Pay, the username field may have been skipped: in that case, or if the username was wrong, write to us with your Cortex Cloud username.

The preset can't find its IR, usually because it was loaded before the IR was on the device. Extract the ZIP from your download link, upload the WAV IRs to Cortex Cloud under Impulse Responses, download them to your Quad Cortex, then reload the preset. We recommend Cortex Cloud for the IRs: IRs moved through the desktop editor or USB are sometimes not recognized by the preset.

V2 is the newer generation of Quad Cortex captures. Our latest packs are made with V2 Captures, our earlier packs with V1. Our V1 packs still sound and play beautifully: they come from the same rigs and the same care, so choose a pack for its sound rather than its generation. The product page of every pack shows which generation it uses.

A full-rig capture includes the amp, the cabinet and the microphones, so it plays as it is. A DI capture includes only the amp and needs a cabinet IR after it: every DI pack includes Custom IRs voiced for that amp, already assigned in our presets, and you can also use any IR from your own library.

When a pack has more captures than fit in one playable preset, we add one or more utility presets just to deliver all of them to you. Use them to reach the captures, not to play: the playable sounds are in the main presets.

Set your input so that your hardest strums barely reach the orange-red area of the Quad Cortex input meter. That's how we calibrate our captures. There's no fixed number, because every guitar has a different output.

Each purchase is for one platform, the one you choose on the product page. If you already own a pack and want it for another platform too, write to us: you get the same pack for the second platform at 50% off.

Yes, if the pack hasn't been delivered or downloaded yet: write to us and we'll switch it to the right platform. Once it has been delivered, we can offer the other version at 50% off.

Yes. Every product page has audio and video demos, recorded by reamping the same DI track through the pack. You can also try our free captures on Cortex Cloud. We don't offer trials, and since these are digital files they can't be returned once delivered, so take a listen to the demos and write to us if you are not sure which pack fits you.

When we update a pack, you receive an email and the update is free.