My Atari running Dr T KCS   used 24 ticks per quarter note...I still use some of those files,,, they sure sound the same to me!  
The main reason I chose Sonar over all the other DAW's I tried was I really like it's MIDI editing a lot! 
The new PRV is awesome where I can see the ghosts of the Kick drum or piano notes while editing my bass track. This has become huge for me. Life just keeps getting better and it's free for life! 
My only gripe is the default to Comping. It got me again yesterday. I only like to work in overwrite mode but new projects default to comping.. please make this stick in preferences...

Cactus Music
My Atari running Dr T KCS   used 24 ticks per quarter note...I still use some of those files,,, they sure sound the same to me!  

 
They will certainly still sound the same as nothing changes in them. The lower the ppq setting when you record midi parts, the more the playing is 'quantized' to that number of ticks. In your example, 24 pulses per quarter note rather than 960. How much difference that makes to the end result is certainly conditional on the particular circumstances (style of music, whether further quantizing is used etc) and quite probably a moot point in many cases.