I've read now in a few places that sram red bb30 chainset will not accept rotor q rings? Is this correct?, is there any way around this? Other than chopping the rings up? What would be the cheapest way of fixing this? I have a rotor 3d chainset also, so I may have to buy the rotor adapter ?

This is incorrect.

New Red has the hidden 5th chainring bolt, so that could be a game changer. With the previous generation Red and Force Q-Rings did not fit the compact cranks without either chopping them up or using the OCP3 outer ring. As far as I am aware Q-rings always fit standard BB30 Sram cranks.

Yes it will. But as you said, you need to "chop up" the rings. You need to just dremel a part of the ring so it fits over the crank and doesn't hit. Takes about 10-15 minutes with a dremel being careful to ensure you still have all the settings available and don't do the wrong part.

Only the large rings needs this done, inside isn't a problem.

Did you two not notice that the picture I posted WAS the new cranks?

I ran them for ~500 miles without the faintest hint of an issue. And shifting was awesome.

Pictures are worth 1000 words. thanks for posting the pictures of the Red set with the Q

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I can add that indeed the old Red BB30 cranks had this issue, but that there's a "OCP3" ring pre-set in position 3, you can use without problems. And, yes. The new Red is compatible with the normal Q-rings.

The OP didn't specify new or old Red. Your photo makes it rather obvious that they work with new Red. Are those standard or compact cranks?

Last years sram red standard