The normal guideline for hard drives is to keep 15% free space, and you fall below that. Still, I do not think this is your problem.

My first hunch is to look at ASIO buffers and increase them while recording. But you may not even be using ASIO. We need to know a lot more information about your system if we are to help you.

We also could benefit from elaborating on what you mean by 'staggers'. A sound clip would be great.

Is this a laptop? There are some essential tweaks need if so. If not, then always record to a different drive than your boot drive.

Too many unknowns here; I'm just guessing. Help us out.


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