In Cubase, you can set lots of different time signatures ~ if they exist. I try ridiculous ones for fun, like 19/7 just to see what they sound like. The metronome corrects it to the nearest existing one.
On one song I did, I wanted to have this esoteric Indianesque section so I set the metronome at something like 17/8 or whatever it was and it was so weird catching the accents. But eventually, I was able to work out the beginnings and endings. What I did was record a 5 minute stretch of the metronome on one track and I played tablas to it. Then I played a different percussive figure {not listening to the tablas, just the click} on something else. I did this 4 times so I had 4 different percussion tracks all playing to this unusual time signature. The random points of meeting created this beautiful swirling pattern and it all fitted. Then taking the initial tablas, I was able to come up with a melody on sitar, a harmony on dilruba and a tampura drone. I thought it sounded pretty neat. By the time I'd finished, it didn't sound like a weird time signature anymore !
If you go
here, scroll to the 6th plug in {called "Tempo tap"}. Apparently, it's a click with a few good reports.
I've never used it so if it's rubbish, you never heard this from me.......
