I Love My Mac!!!

[wongaling]

I had traktor running fine on my toshiba I just ran into alot of problems with my soundcard not working on it. like with my mac everything is just plug and play with no worries but I couldn't for the life of me get my sound card running through fruity loops the other night at all. p.s. I am doing work experience at a apple store and that argument that apples can't be upgraded easily is a load of crap. I watched a guy swap a hard drive on an imac in less than 10minutes.

[djqbnza]

Hello everyone, I've got something to say about my new (older MBP). I have been using Traktor Scratch Pro, 2 MIDI controllers (Akai LPD8, Korg Kontol, and 2 CD players or turntables along with my high end Asus Win 7 PC for the past few years. I experienced several problems, multiple reboots, and dead controllers which ultimately crashed my PC/Traktor live with huge crowds. I always had a backup plugged into the board (mp3 player) but I hated the crash. Since I've upgraded to MAC, I've noticed a few things. Boot up time takes 20 seconds, opening Traktor Scratch Pro takes 15 seconds, and my multiple MIDI controllers don't fight with each other like they used to when I was using a PC. My verdict, my MacBook PRO just works like it should when playing live. That's all I really care about. Here are the CPU stats:
Apple MacBook Pro 15.4" Laptop C2D 2.2GHz 4GB, 500 Gig HD.
This thing rocks...

[Karlos Santos]

Advice to the O.P.

You shouldnt really run a soundcard on a USB hub. Especially with Traktor.
It maybe working fine now (its Mac, it would;-) but as soon as you put a lot of stress on the system you may find yourself getting pops and spikes.

NI advise 100% that your soundcard is on its one dedicated USB port.
Just a thought.

[wongaling]

yea I get that, it's just nice knowing that everything runs out of one port.

[Nesquigs]

yeah, i have had my rig running through a single gigaware powered usb hub, and havnt had any problems with it at all running my s4/x1 and MF on my Macbook.

do they advise that just because of latency? cause i havnt noticed a difference between being plugged directly into one of the USB ports on the macbook or when running from the hub.

2009 13" Macbook Unibody, 2.4ghz, 4 GB Ram, 60 GB SSD / 750 GB HDD