Yes, you can shift that in BIAB MIDI tracks.

A few other instruments are octave transposing, such as tenor sax that sound an octave below written (and a ninth below a note in concert key). Acoustic and electric bass is also written an octave above where it sounds.

Go to Options, Preferences, Channels. Find the row for the instrument playing your guitar part and move to the 2nd column in that row. You'll see a zero. Change it to a minus one. Note that the bass track does this by default.

Then you may want to go to the Melody (or Soloist) menu, do Edit, Transpose, Transpose UP an octave. Depends on where you prefer to read it. My guitarist can read either way but I normally write parts up an octave from where I want it to sound.


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