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Audio engineers are trying to send full-bandwidth mixes between studios in real-time — not a rough preview, not a compressed stream, but the actual mix as it sounds in the room. The post is explicit: they're willing to spend real money on gear or software, they just can't find anything that doesn't feel cobbled together or unreliable. That "I don't mind spending money" detail matters — this isn't someone hunting for a free workaround, it's a professional with budget who's hitting a wall. The persona is pretty specific: studio engineers doing collaborative sessions or remote mixing work, where latency and audio fidelity aren't negotiable. Existing tools probably fail them the same way video call audio fails a musician — compression artifacts, buffering, latency that breaks the feedback loop between two engineers trying to work together. Honestly, the signal here is thin — one post, low engagement — so I'd treat this as an early whisper rather than a validated gap. But if you wanted to poke at it, a focused v1 could be dead-simple: a desktop app built specifically for studio-to-studio audio piping, no DAW plugin complexity, just point-to-point lossless audio with a latency indicator. Something that works like a dedicated hotline between two Pro Tools rigs. Worth a few customer discovery calls with session engineers before building anything, though.

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Music producers migrating to new machines are getting wrecked by DAW plugin setups — this person tried dragging their EastWest Opus files over from an external drive, which works fine for simpler plugins but completely broke Opus, leaving them stuck in a loop of crashes and failed instrument downloads. The problem is real and specific: Opus has its own installer logic, license verification, and cloud download layer that doesn't survive a naive file copy, and neither Ableton nor EastWest's own tooling gives you any clear guidance when things go sideways. That gap — between "I followed the obvious steps" and "now nothing works" — is exactly where people fall apart. The honest caveat here is that this is a single post with low engagement, so tread carefully before betting big on it. But if you wanted a focused v1, the angle is a migration assistant specifically for DAW plugin setups — something that scans your current machine, maps which plugins need full reinstalls versus which can transfer, and walks you through the right order of operations for the tricky ones like Opus. Think of it less as a support tool and more as a checklist-with-brains that a producer runs before they wipe their old machine.