Editing Software Instruments' Note Range?

Question

Cannot find anywhere, how to shift the octave setting for individual software instruments!
I'd like to raise the bass up an octave, lower the keyboards, etc, but can not find a word about how to do this, anyone know????

Answer 1

Christoph Drösser wrote:
A (software) instrument in GB is a set of sounds. You trigger it with any kind of input device or the screen keyboards, or you draw notes manually. Most melodic software instruments have quite a wide range of notes, the range you are talking about is the one of the input device.
So you are still talking of two different problems:
1. Record notes. Well, as you said and as I said above, you'll have to adjust your input device's range, like lower it for recording bass. And I still think it's no big deal, just one click of a button. You're asking for the keybaord to "know" that it's playing a bass line - and no, it doesn't know that.
2. Changing an already recorded piece of music, like an imported midi file. That has nothing to do with the onscreen keyboard! Double-click the region and use the pitch slider to adjust its pitch by +12 steps. Or go into the note editor, type command-a to select all notes and pull them up 12 steps.
Is that clearer??
1. No, I am not asking anything to know it's playing a bass line, as I'm talking about an imported midi file, so it's telling the bass to play bass lines, the keyboard to play chords, etc. And no, the range I have been talking about is NOT the one of the input device, as I was not using any input device.
I do not think what I am asking is very confusing, much less complicated.... Yet you keep telling me I'm asking this or that, none of which I asked....
How much clearer could I have been? I asked about importing a midi file, not playing an instrument, as obviously, I would simply play what notes I wanted, for each instrument.
2. I found the pitch slider on my own, thus have been able to finally do what I had been trying to find out all along, which was to simply adjust the pitch of specific software instruments. It sounds like you knew how to do that, but for some reason assumed I was asking about everything else but that.. Now, if you had just said that in your first post, this would have been resolved early this morning.