[Erin O’keefe]

Hi Kevin,

I just went through trouble-shooting this same issue when trying to record audio directly into Audition. The source of the problem turned out to be the fact that my project files were being saved on an external drive. My computer could handle the tracking bandwidth necessary just fine, but sending the signal through the USB port to the external drive was inadequate and ended up leaving little dropouts in audio. Saving to my internal drive fixed the issue.

You might also try shutting off any CPU-intensive programs that could be running in the background. Any cloud-sync programs (like dropbox) or auto-updaters can be a resource drain when trying to do something that requires a lot of processing speed.

Hope that helps.

-Erin