Not 100% sure what you are looking for, but after I create a drum track, I usually Select All and use Find/Change to set them all the 10 ticks.
When entering, I work in Staff and X1 (for me) usually defaults to the value selected in the drop-down above (1/4, 1/8, etc.). More often, though, I CTRL+drag an existing note to create a new one.
If you are in Piano Roll, I don't know what to do unless you change after the fact.