Metronome stops working, anyone else experienced this?

Cubase
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I posted this in the Issues session, but I wanted to see if there’s some step that I’m missing:

For the past few sessions now, the metronome has stopped working as a result of me practicing whatever MIDI sequence on my controller.

My steps.

  1. Stop all playback
  2. Play a bit on my controller through a VSTi.
  3. Try to record, and the metronome won’t sound anymore until I close and re-open the application. Same also seems to go for playback’s metronome.

edit: I have Cubase stopped as we speak, and twice in a span of about 10 seconds, the metronome sounded. This definitely appears to be some kind of glitch.

Edit 2: After some research, it appears that this is an old issue that has been present for several versions of Cubase. Using the Midi Click is a no-go for me. I can’t get that to work.