Somewhere between takes I got tired of the same thing: a click that has no idea where the bar is. In 4/4 it’s fine. The moment the music isn’t in four, a metronome ticking flat through the bar stops helping and starts fighting you.

So I built one that counts properly. It’s called OddClick.

OddClick click track plugin: the bar editor with per-beat accents
Interface of OddClick

What it actually does

You tell it how the bar falls. 7/8 as 2+3+2. 13/8 as 3+4+3+2+1. Anything that adds up — there’s no list of supported meters to be stuck inside. The downbeat comes out strong, each group gets its own accent, and everything else stays out of the way. It counts the way you’d count it in your head.

Past that: a different sound for each accent role, subdivisions you can set beat by beat, and a whole song’s worth of time signatures imported straight from a MIDI file so the first take is already right.

Where it’s at

AAX, VST3 and AU, for Mac, with Windows support coming in 2027. It’s in development, with release estimated for fall 2026.

There’s nothing to buy yet, and I’d rather not pretend otherwise. If you want to know the day it’s ready, leave your email at oddclick.net: you’ll get one email when it ships, with a launch price that’s only for subscribers.