Sharing rigs
A rig is a preset you can share: one .openrig file holding the chain
(blocks, settings, splits, its 8 scenes and its tempo) and the list of what it needs, the
plugins and the model files with where each one comes from. On another pedalboard, installing
the rig fetches what is missing and adds the chain as a new preset.
A rig never contains plugins or models, only references to them: plugins come from the plugin store, amp, pedal and cabinet models from TONE3000 with your own account.
On the pedalboard
Section titled “On the pedalboard”On the Presets page, the share icon next to Save opens the Rigs panel. It has an Export card at the top and the Import list under it.
Export
Section titled “Export”The Export card exports the chain as it is now, under the name of the current preset.
- Author: your name, written in every rig you export. Set it once, it is kept. Leave it empty to stay anonymous.
- MIDI CCs: the MIDI controls learned by the blocks fit your own controller, so they are left out unless this is on.
- Export writes the rig to
rigs/<name>.openrigin the pedalboard’s data folder. To USB writes it to a USB drive too, when one is mounted.
The note under the title lists what only this pedalboard has: a plugin you copied by hand, or a model or impulse response of your own. Those are listed in the rig by name only; it still installs elsewhere, without them, but cannot be published on openrig.eu.
Import
Section titled “Import”The Import list shows the .openrig files of the rigs folder and of the top folder of
mounted USB drives (marked USB). Tap one to see what it needs, item by item:
| Tag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ON BOARD | Already on this pedalboard |
| STORE | A plugin the store installs |
| TONE3000 | A model downloaded with your TONE3000 account (link it first) |
| MISSING | Cannot be had here: the preset is installed without it |
Install rig installs and downloads what it can, and keeps going when one item fails. It then saves the chain as a new preset, with the paths of this pedalboard, and loads it. Each item then shows INSTALLED or FAILED, and why.
With the desktop app, the data folder is ~/.local/share/pedalboard on Linux (or
$PEDALBOARD_DATA_DIR), and USB drives are found where the desktop mounts them
(/media/<user>/ or /run/media/<user>/ on Linux, /Volumes/ on macOS). On Windows, copy
files into the rigs folder.
Safety
Section titled “Safety”Installing a rig never runs anything from the file. A rig is at most 1 MiB and is checked before anything is installed; the files it names stay inside the models folder, and downloads go where the app decides, not where the rig says. Plugins only come from the signed store catalog, models only from TONE3000.
On openrig.eu
Section titled “On openrig.eu”openrig.eu is where players share their rigs. Each rig page draws the chain as the rack does, with its scenes and the list of what it needs.
- Browse the rigs: search, filter by style, tag or what they need, sort by trending, new, top or downloads. Anyone can download a rig, no account needed.
- Sign in with GitHub to take part:
- Upvote the rigs you like and keep them in your favourites.
- Comment on a rig, and get notified of replies.
- Publish your own: upload an
.openrigfile exported from your pedalboard, with a description, tags and later versions. A rig with items only your pedalboard has (see Export) cannot be published.
- Link a pedalboard to your account at openrig.eu/link with the short code it shows: a linked pedalboard can list your favourites and publish rigs in your name. Linked pedalboards are listed, and can be unlinked, in the site’s settings. Signing in from the pedalboard comes with a later OpenRig version; until then, download a rig on the site and import it as above.