Been using Ableton about 6 months now just getting familiar. Now, in getting creative I'm ready to go back to my roots: Middle Eastern music. Here, time signatures are often/usually odd: 5/8, 7/8, and 9/8 are very common.

It's easy to set up drum beats by hand and I've got some nice "ethnic" sounds going, but for the basics of automated electronica (arps; synth beats, grooves, transitions) I'm having problems with available (basic ableton) tools to set up pieces that don't sound like they're resetting themselves painfully on even beats.

Anyone have any tricks or tools out there (hopefully free ones though I'd spend a couple $ for something good!) for laying down these odd beats?

tl;dr any ableton love for 5/8?