The vast majority of EDM collaborations now happen entirely remotely. Geography stopped being the constraint — what determines whether it works is the tools you use and the habits you build around them.
Give your collaborator the individual elements they need to understand your production and add to it meaningfully — not just a stereo bounce. A vocalist adding a topline needs the instrumental in a form they can actually work against; a co-producer adding sound design needs to hear what's already there in isolation, not guess at it inside a finished mix.
Remote collaborations rarely die because of a tools problem. They die because one person assumed the other knew what was needed next, and nobody said anything until momentum was already gone.
The best collaboration I've been part of didn't feel like two people compromising over a shared drive. It felt like one track that couldn't have existed without both of us — and that only happened because we over-communicated the whole way through.
Cloud storage like Dropbox or Google Drive for sending stems, Splice for versioned sample and project sharing, Discord or voice notes for quick feedback, and WeTransfer for large one-off file transfers. The DAW itself matters less than having one agreed place everything lives.
Yes — the majority of professional electronic music collaborations happen entirely remotely now. What makes it work is sending full stems rather than just a bounced mix, and agreeing on revision rounds upfront.
Usually assumed understanding rather than a tools problem — one person assumes the other knows what's needed next. Over-communicating expectations, deadlines, and feedback rounds prevents most remote collaborations from stalling out.