Tempo unit (beat)

[ggmanestraki]

M.M. Number and Tempo Track: Please allow more note values as the defined beat

Cubase only understands quarters as the beat value. If we were playing a 6/8 tune and tapping our foot at 1 and 4, then we would agree we have a dotted quarter as our beat, and we would define the metronome as dotted quarter = x. Cubase doesn’t understand that. It only counts quarters, tapping its foot at 1, 3, 5. In this case, for our song to sound as we expect it, we must multiply our tempo value by 1.5. If we were tapping our foot 60 times a second in our example, Cubase tempo would have to…

I’ve made a request. TL;DR, it’s as @mlib says, the tempo number in Cubase (e.g. 120) always refers to a quarter note.