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

[Sprike]

No, once Traktor is loaded up there is no use to upgrade to an SSD.

Maybe if it load slowly at the start or if it takes a while when entering in a different folder, nothing else.

SSD = speed reading the data not power to elaborate it

[chromatome]

It's only anecdotal, but I've found that things just don't run quite as smoothly on Mountain Lion so I downgraded back to Lion and am going to wait for Mavericks to upgrade again.

As I said though, this is only my personal experience. Your setup seems more than capable of what you're asking of it, so it very well may be something else that you're missing entirely. Open activity monitor, kill everything that you know isn't necessary while using Traktor, then open Terminal and type "purge" (without the quotes). That will purge all inactive but wired ram and make it available for whatever needs it. OSX is typically very good at memory management, but I will purge my ram usually once a day regardless. (As a side note, if you're ever having choppy video playback on a stream, often the purge command will clear it up as well).

[apford]

As others have said, your processor should be more than powerful enough. I think a RAM upgrade could definitely help. For comparison, I'm on a mid 2009 Macbook pro with a 2.53 ghz processor (Core 2 Duo), and I run either an S4 or DJM900, plus an F1, 2 CDJs in HID mode, a Faderfox LX2, and a Numark Orbit and the computer still runs fine.
I upgraded the ram to 8gigs, and I have a 500gig SSD.

You could also try cleaning out your computer, using a utility such as Onyx.

Also check your USB cables if you are losing connections to your gear.

[Sambo]

I'm running a Lenovo, Windows 8 with an i5 with an S4 and it eats Traktor alive (Until Windows 8 does it's thing, which no matter how many times I turn off it needs to remind of something else that I don't need to know about) so an i7 MBP should have no trouble running Traktor, even at 10 ms latency. My guess is there's some conflicting software on your system, what it could be, god only knows.

[Timbo21]

When I put an SSD into my 2011 13" Macbook Pro 2.8ghz Traktor has run much more smoothly. The software itself may not benefit from a faster disk, but remember that the soundfiles are being read from the disk drive and the standard HDD in the 13" MacBooks was 5400. Even when you use a 7200 speed disk it's much better than a 5400. Also add some RAM, at least 8GB.

I think it is worth adding an SSD. I've had 0 problems since I put one in, when I did a bit before

[Polygon]

SSD will speed up song load times , boot times, program launch times, but the problem here is probably that your ram is getting full, so the OS writes part of the ram to your HDD, which you probably know is a helluva lot slower than your ram. Yes, an SSD will make the writing to disk faster, BUT, what i suggest is to FIRST upgrade the ram to 8gb, and only then if your problem isn't fixed, to go for an SSD.

[flpanhandler]

I think I am going to upgrade mine as well, I rarely have clicks and drop outs, but they do happen.