Logic Pro X Cracking / Popping During playback and during Recording

While playing the tracks, or recording I keep getting pop/clicks that make the tracks unusable - they seem to come at random and not at particularly loud points or anything like that. It's an electronic sound that seems to affect the whole pitch range of the sound, it also comes while bouncing. They are random and don't show in the tracks. The noise is not part of the audio information, and it happens randomly like plops or clicks. random annoying static noise. I have a Mac Mini later than 2018 64GB ram i5 processor. I looked if it was related to the processing power, but the music literally doesn't even scratch the power. This machine is powerful, but it's acting up. The preferences are set right for playback at 250 or higher, for recording at 32. and the threading is set to playback tracks currently. I have tried all settings.