I've tried to like it, but it just seems to slow me down so much.
 
I don't find it 'smart' at all, it's totally unintuitive and clunky.
 
And why doesn't it remember what it was set to in other views when you change between them. For example, I've just been in the PRV adding some notes to a drum track. Then I switched back to the Track View because I want to do some editing. I've split a track in a few places before suddenly realising that I'm not actually splitting at the 'whole measure' snap-to-grid value I have set. And all because the fecking 'unSmart' tool is still set to 'Draw' and therefore it doesn't follow the snap settings when I click in the Track Pane 
 
Am I missing a way to set SONAR up so the Smart Tool reverts to however it was set in each view?
 
As always with these type of things, I used to manage absolutely fine before we had a smart tool. I'm not one of these 'power' users who uses a lot of MIDI so I might be missing something.

Maybe you need a dumb tool to use? 
(Or, perhaps, you're actually using the "Smart Arse" tool by accident?) 

You could ask John T ;-)

How can the smart tool be "set" to something though? It's an all in one affair that changes according to where you're hovering the mouse, is it not? The problem you describe sounds more like an issue with global/PRV snap settings, which to be honest perplexes me sometimes.

I too fail to understand the lack of smarts the smart tool is supposed to have.
 
Thank the powers that be (Microsoft) for inventing undo.

You don't have to use it.

If you're not "smart" enough...I guess not.

bapu
I too fail to understand the lack of smarts the smart tool is supposed to have.
 
Thank the powers that be (Microsoft) for inventing undo.

Of all the things MS did wrong, there is but one undeniable thing they did right!
 
"UNDO" (or to those too pious to know what a "mouse" is, "ctrl+z") is the smartest tool of all!
 
 
 
I use it religiously.  If only life came with one, then I could go back and do it all over ag....

sharke
How can the smart tool be "set" to something though? It's an all in one affair that changes according to where you're hovering the mouse, is it not? The problem you describe sounds more like an issue with global/PRV snap settings, which to be honest perplexes me sometimes.

sharke - click on the middle mouse button and a menu pops up for your smart tool for you to change between functions.
 
but, yes, it does adapt to where you're working and where you're holding the mouse within the parameters of the current function.