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2. Cubase 9.5’s maxed-out metronome

1 We never thought we’d be excited about a metronome. Yet Steinberg have taken Cubase’s far beyond that annoying, robotic click and made it more of a creative ‘partner in time’. Level faders now make it much easier to adjust the metronome’s various parameters. Let’s go to the Transport menu and call up the Metronome Setup.

2 We see the General settings. The Click Sounds tabs allows us to customise the metronome’s sound. You can replace the standard Cubase click sound with any sample in the Audio Click Settings area, or if you prefer, you can call up one of the new prefab sounds from a list of preset Default Sounds.

3 Cubase Pro users can take this newfound flexibility even further by customising the accents used in the pattern. Clicking the Click Patterns tab brings up a host of new toys to play with. Here we can use one of the existing preset Click Patterns, or make our own, placing the accents wherever we like.