How do I make notes snap to a specified duration as I enter them in Staff View?

I'm using Sonar Platinum.

I know I can quantize notes after the fact, but if I'm entering four quarter notes in 4/4, there should be a way to have them land directly on four quarter notes as I enter them. 

I already have "Snap" set to "to" and turned on. I thought it should be that simple, but evidently, it isn't.

I'm a long-time Sonar user, but updated to Platinum from Sonar 8.5 where this sort of thing was never an issue. 

OK. Thanks for letting me know.

At least now I know I'm not just missing some setting buried in a menu somewhere. 

soens
Well.... maybe, maybe not. With all the changes you never know anymore. Read up on the Platinum Staff View in detail online and help files before writing it off. I don't use Staff View but other views and functions have been changed like that.

I can't even find a help file for Staff View in Platinum. The only article I could find about Staff View was for an earlier version. 

scook
http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=Notation.01.html#1106124
 

Thanks.

Unfortunately, SONAR does not actually function as described in those help files. 

In reality, using Shift with Left or Right arrow only works sometimes. And even then, if I click on the Now time with a half note, it may be off by a 16th or a 32nd. 

Even if SONAR did function precisely as those help files describe, it's much more tedious to stop between each note to advance the Now time to the precise spot I want to enter the note.

In SONAR 8.5, I could simply hit 4 for quarter note, then enter a string of quarter notes. Every note was placed at the correct time. If I want a dotted eighth note, I could hit 8, then a period, and it would put notes either directly on the beat or precisely at 480 ticks if I clicked in between. Now it's anyone's guess where a note will land regardless of whether the Now time is correct or not.

Changing from one note duration to another also takes more time. There are a few shortcuts, but those use Ctrl-Shift. Even the drop down menu to select note values is over complicated. You have to RIGHT click it rather than left click, even though every other menu in the program opens with a left click. It's ridiculous.

Although i feel this isn't the actual case, it sure seems like Cakewalk did everything possible to discourage anyone from using Staff View any more. So if it wasn't deliberate, the only other answer is incompetence. How else can you explain taking a function that worked great in a previous version of the program and totally breaking it in more recent versions?