Dropouts has to do with the operating system and what features of it
the recording app uses.
My 133 MHz win95 desktop records and plays back real audio flawlessly
under any load whatsoever, simply because handling audio samples is
done at the highest priority, by real encoder and real player and
the operating system.
The load doesn't matter because the load is at a lower priority and
so always waits when there's an audio sample to handle.
If you get a dropout, the computer is programmed to do something else
first, or doesn't distinguish the priorities of various threads at
all.
On the same win95 machine, windows media player playback does show
dropouts under load, so obviously there's a capability to avoid them
that simply isn't being used by that app.
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