Recording is full of skips (MacBook M1 Pro)

Finished recording a 30 minute voice over, to realize every few minutes the audio skips. It just cuts out randomly and skips over a word, baked into the recording so no way to bring it back, I have to re-record.

I'm on a Macbook M1 pro, 16gb RAM, with Evo4. Audio 23.2.0.68. Buffer size set at 512.

This has never happened to me on Logic or Garageband, and from the looks of it, I should go back to those stable programs. But before I do that, what the hell is going on?

I've seen some discussions about it, freaked out to see how common it is, and even more freaked out that no solution was really given. Sample rate is 44k for both Evo4 and Audition. M1 Pro shouldn't have any issues. This doesnt make any sense. 

Is there an actual solution to this besides shutting down background software and making sure sample rate is synced? Or should I just go back to Logic? 

Thanks!