Selling presets shouldn't mean manual work.
Cortex Cloud has no marketplace and no public sharing API. Delivering a Quad Cortex preset means signing in, sending a friend request, waiting for it to be accepted, then sharing the file by hand. That falls apart at more than a few orders a week.
Preset Bridge runs that loop for you. Your store posts an order, and the sign-in, the friend request, the wait and the share all happen without anyone opening a browser.
What happens to an order.
Four steps run for every delivery, and every attempt is written to the log whether it succeeds or not.
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The order arrives
Your store posts an order webhook, or you call the API directly, with the customer's Cortex Cloud username and the product they bought. The signature is checked before anything else happens.
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The product is matched to an asset
Item mappings translate a SKU, product ID, variant ID or title into a preset or capture reference.
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The friend request goes out
Cortex Cloud will not accept a share until the customer accepts the request, so the delivery stays queued and retries on a schedule rather than failing.
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The file is shared and recorded
The outcome lands in the delivery log, credits are deducted for successful paid actions and refunded for failed ones, and any outbound webhook you have configured fires.
How your credentials are handled.
Your Cortex Cloud email and password are encrypted with AES-256 before they reach the database. Only the worker that runs the share automation can decrypt them, and they are never written to logs. You can delete them from Settings at any time, and doing so stops future deliveries rather than deleting your history.
Store webhooks are signed with HMAC-SHA256 and verified against a secret that belongs to a single integration. API tokens are shown once, stored as a hash, and can be rotated independently of your Cortex Cloud login.
Who builds this.
Preset Bridge is built and run by one person in Australia, and that person sells presets through the same system.
I'm Dwayne Charrington. In the Neural DSP Discord I go by Beggars, and I have been around that community for years. I have also run Cortex Presets for a few years, which now runs its deliveries through Preset Bridge like any other store.
That matters for one reason: every problem this service has, I hit first. The friend request that never gets accepted, the order that arrives without a username, the delivery that needs retrying at two in the morning. The queue, the retry schedule and the delivery log all exist because I needed them before anyone else did.
The rest of my work is at Rangefront Labs, a small software studio here in Australia.
- Cortex Presets
- cortexpresets.com
- Rangefront Labs
- rangefrontlabs.com.au
- Neural DSP Discord
- Beggars