I had the original Music Creator. Last week I bought Music Creator 6 to try and get back into writing music.
 
It took forever to find but I located the Staff View. I don't use a keyboard to import anything. I write all my music by assigning instruments, then draw notes to the staff. It's the very old fashioned way but that's how I do it.
 
My problem is when I put notes to the staff only about 1/4 of them are making sounds. Today I placed 12 quarter notes in the piano area, and when I hit play only 3 or 4 of them made sounds.
 
I guess what I'm looking for is a simple tutorial that would explain how to write music the way I write it.
 
Thanks.
 
edit: added [Solved] to the subject line - sc

Dropped MIDI notes are usually an indication of too small a "Prepare Using nnn Millisecond Buffers" setting in Preferences > MIDI > Playback and Recording. Try increasing the setting from 250 to 500 or 750.

Ill try that when I'm back home. Thank you.

You could also have notes overlapping regarding their on/off start/end time. If the synth is a mono synth it will have to drop something.
 
Each note should stop before another starts.  I had to correct a wrong note using staff.... it played fine before I corrected it but after correcting it, the second note didn't play. I finally figured out that in the edit, I had inadvertently  overlapped the notes by a few milliseconds. Once I fixed that, the second note played correctly.
 
With a poly synth, this is usually not an issue unless the 2 notes in question are the same pitch.

When I changed the buffer to 500 from 250 I heard every note I'd put down, where before I couldn't, so I'm pretty sure that took care of it. After messing around a little more, some things are coming back to me from before, so I think I'll be able to get this to work for me after all. Yesterday I wanted to throw it into the river.
 
I'll be sure to come back as more questions arise...
 
Thanks for the help. I really enjoyed this a decade or more ago and would like to again!

Glad it worked for you. A few years ago, Cakewalk changed the default from 500 to 250. It has caused quite a few threads like this one.
 
I will mark this solved. Thanks for the feedback.