Okay. Enough with the “it does that for me too” posts. It does that. For everybody.
Yes. Quantize is real-time.
When recording a pad press, if the time is quantized in the past (would have already played) then the sound is played immediately. If the sound is quantized into the future, then it plays when at the correct time, the same time that it will play when the pattern is played back. The reasoning was that when you record, it will sound more like when it is played back.
I realize that is not how most machines do it. It is apparently not the improvement I thought it was. It can be changed.