Just venting. 

Older versions of Sonar worked just fine in staff view. Spent a few hours creating some tracks for a friend in Sonar 4 . . . . working in X1 now and snap is IGNORING my choices. 

X1C

No reply needed. Just venting. Thanks.

It hates me and ignores my specified choice. 

I choose snap to 1/16 note . . . and they are drawn wherever I drop my mouse. My snap setting is ignored.
I choose snap to 1/4 note . . . and they are drawn wherever I drop my mouse. My snap setting is ignored.

I choose snap to 1/8 note . . . and they are drawn wherever I drop my mouse. My snap setting is ignored.

Magnetic strength options changed . . . doesn't help.

Works great in piano roll view.

Bias against musicians who use . . . . God forbid . . . . music notes!

Check the magnetic strength setting in preferences. I think it's project specific in X1 but at any rate, turn it off.

I know . . . magnetic strength does me no good. Works fine in piano roll.

Is it just me that has this problem?

Won't snap to selected values. What am I doing wrong?  Could someone watch this and let me know?

http://screencast.com/t/SXuWcofYEi

Spent the day working on tracks for a friend in Sonar 4; lots of MIDI playing, fixing, entering and editing.  Worked PERFECTLY.

Now I'm back at my place and working on X1c and I'm remembering how much snap hates me. 

PS: I understand magnetic strength.

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Got a reply from technical support: 

Snap to Grid was never really fully developed for the Staff View. There are some "snap-like" tendencies that tend to vary, but as you have noticed the behavior is unpredictable in SONAR X1. Snap to Grid is more intended for moving data around in the Track View and the Piano Roll View.

Other users have also reported to us that notes do not "Snap" consistently in the Staff View. We have created official reports regarding this internally, however at this time it is more of a feature request for enhancements moving forwards. In other words, Tech Support does not have any "Fixes" for you as Staff View specific snap behavior would have to be implemented in an update to the application or a new version of the application.

The only recommendation I can make is to consider moving notes in the Piano Roll View. SONAR X1c did introduce "Piano Roll View Specific Snap" settings again, so you can easily use this to snap notes to different intervals. I know its not quite the behavior you are looking for, as it requires working in a different view, but you would be able to move data around easily this way. You can find more details on PRV Specific Snap in X1c at http://www.cakewalk.com/Support/kb/reader.aspx/2007013258
 

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Got a reply from technical support: 

Snap to Grid was never really fully developed for the Staff View. There are some "snap-like" tendencies that tend to vary, but as you have noticed the behavior is unpredictable in SONAR X1. Snap to Grid is more intended for moving data around in the Track View and the Piano Roll View.

Other users have also reported to us that notes do not "Snap" consistently in the Staff View. We have created official reports regarding this internally, however at this time it is more of a feature request for enhancements moving forwards. In other words, Tech Support does not have any "Fixes" for you as Staff View specific snap behavior would have to be implemented in an update to the application or a new version of the application.

The only recommendation I can make is to consider moving notes in the Piano Roll View. SONAR X1c did introduce "Piano Roll View Specific Snap" settings again, so you can easily use this to snap notes to different intervals. I know its not quite the behavior you are looking for, as it requires working in a different view, but you would be able to move data around easily this way. You can find more details on PRV Specific Snap in X1c at http://www.cakewalk.com/Support/kb/reader.aspx/2007013258

Is it just me, or does it seem that the staff view won't be getting attention anytime soon?