Sometimes the playback skips on a song — why?
There are two possible causes — hard drive access, and CPU usage: Rockit is a streaming program, meaning it is reading the song from your hard drive during playback. This means that if another process running on your computer tries to access the drive at the same time, it can interrupt Rockit’s ability to read the next batch of data to play. The usual suspects are anti virus programs and programs that index files on your hard drive for searches. You should generally turn these types of programs off during a gig. If another process spikes the CPU usage to near 100%, all other programs take a hit, including Rockit. As above, it’s best to have as few processes running on your computer as possible during a gig. The easiest way to find either of these issues, is to use Windows Task Manager. Open it up, and go to the Processes tab, and you will see all processes running on your computer. On the View menu, you can select the columns you would like to see, and the ones of most importance to u
