MBP 2.7ghz I7 has trouble running traktor w/ all my gear.. will ssd hd upgrade fix it
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    Default MBP 2.7ghz I7 has trouble running traktor w/ all my gear.. will ssd hd upgrade fix it

    so, i'm using a 2011 macbook pro 2.7 ghz I7 w/ 4gb of ram and a 500gb sata drive. my gear includes A6 with rane ttm56 and 1200's (i like to scratch a lot), S4 & maschine with a cool mapping i found on digitaldjtools.net which gives me full control of remix decks c & d. i use one turntable as deck c remix deck with maschine, and 1 turntable as deck b track deck... deck a I control with the S4, and deck d with just the maschine. i select the A6 as the audio device and use the S4 & maschine as midi controllers

    When i run just two decks with the A6, the computer is ok, no issues. but once i start using decks c & d, especially if I have them loaded as remix decks, the computer starts to have a hard time.

    1 - if ive been working in the remix decks for a while, sometimes the maschine stops responding (hit the button nothing happens) and I have to restart traktor, obviously super lame if im playing a show

    2 - even though i adjust latency, with the maschine & remix decks sometimes when I trigger a sample cell in a slot that is not currently playing, there is a delay or slight lag.. clearly super lame as well because it sounds like poopoo

    3 - again if I've been working in the remix decks for a while, and I close traktor while a remix deck is loaded, traktor freezes up at the 'storing collection' message and I have to force quit out losing whatever work ive done (sucks when building the remix sets) i have however found a work around for this by simply switching decks c & d to track decks in stead of remix decks before closing traktor, when i do this it doesnt crash

    just in general seems like the computer struggles with the workload I'm putting on it

    so my question is, will upgrading to 8gb of ram and a 256gb SSD drive fix this or should I go ahead and get a new computer that already has that with with an upgraded processor.

    is the processor on the macbook I already have capable to run my setup without issues?

    any input is appreciated thanks!!

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    Your processor is still quite powerful compared to the newer models (I'm guessing it has an i7-2620M?) so a CPU upgrade is not likely to help.

    Have you tried different Traktor versions?
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    Also, what latency are you running? I have an i5, and mine runs fine at around 10 ms latency, even with c and d going.
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    i am running tsp 2.6.3 (the only option to for full remix deck control with my maschine, right?), and osx 10.8.5..

    i usually keep my latency right around 9-10 ms, sometimes when it seems like its having a hard time i up it to 12 or so

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    durrr gonna go ahead and upgrade to 2.6.4 will report back if it fixes issues

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    Hmm, yeah, sounds like something is going on, here. An i7 MBP shouldn't even flinch at that, imo.

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    I found Mountain Lion to run a lot better on 8gb of RAM or more. 16gb isn't much more so I'd try that.

    You shouldn't need a SSD but it's worth it to upgrade to one eventually. It made my 2011 MacBook Pro i5 feel like a brand new machine.

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    What's your latency sample rate?
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    ok, so im running os 10.8.5 .. makar1 after you posted that I checked and saw that I was missing 2.6.4, ive been using 2.6.3 so im doing some testing now to see if the update helps..

    i usually keep my latency around 9-10 ms, sometimes when it seems like its having a hard time i bump it up to 12 or so

    and the sample rat at 44100.. is that what it should be?

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    Try upping the latency to 512 samples.
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