[betaby]

Only I hear cracking sound at the end of every beat? Removing pulseaudio helps to shorten it but not completely eliminates.

[hashkb]

Pulse/alsa/jack shenanigans make audio production the only thing I still use MacOS for.

[digi_owl]

Pulseaudio should not even be involved, as the program do not require it. But then it keeps inserting itself into the "conversation" by hijacking any connection to and from Alsa...

[frutiger]

If it's doing that, you might want to check your ~/.asoundrc, which might be specifying pulse as the default ALSA device.

[obombration]

Do you use an audio interface? What have you found is supported well by Linux? Saffire Pro 24 + Addictive Drums + Logic is what is really keeping me tied to macOS at home.

[12bits]

^ This.

[digi_owl]

Define "removing". Pulseaudio is a hard beast to put down.

[rzzzt]

Tame the beast with Cadence: http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Applications:Cadence

This control panel app includes support for a PulseAudio-to-JACK bridge, which makes (if I remember correctly) PulseAudio a wireable source and sink in the connection graph while the server is running.

[betaby]

apt remove pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils then reboot, not really that hard.

[lmm]

That's fine until you install anything, then it gets pulled back in.