Hello Paul,
I will try that.
Briefly what are the benefits of coupled instances? What gets saved in them vs uncoupled instances? I get that if you have uncoupled instances, you must save them on the slave.
But if I am using the same VEP metaframe across projects just hosting VIs do I need them coupled? What else would be saved with them given all automation and cc data will be in the DAW project?
Also are you saying my issues are not related at all to network issues?