I just noticed something weird last night when I was practicing violin with Band in a Box.

The lowest note displayed on the violin fretboard is G4, when in fact it is G3.

The lowest note displayed in the guitar fretboard is E3, when it fact it is E2.

Toggling the fretboard options don't seem to do anything, and I am not quite sure what they do anyway. What does "Fretboard octave" do?

In any case there would be no case in which the lowest note on a violin fretboard would be G4. I will always be G3.

And E2 for Guitar. So I don't get it.

I always transpose the octave for guitar music and the notes I HEAR on NOTATION are accurate, and they are in the right place on the fretboard (they are just being called out as an octave higher than they should be.)

This does not impede me in any way, but I just thought it was odd and I couldn't figure it out.

Thanks and sorry if I am missing something obvious and being stupid.

I may be stepping over the edge here, but I believe that there is no set standard designation for designation of octaves. Different vendors use different designations.

Wiki....

The MIDI standard doesn't define which octave is standard.

This is because the documentation of the two biggest standard bearers, Roland and Yamaha, defines their MIDI standard octave one octave apart from each other.

One byproduct of this is you'll find each virtual instrument developer either follows Roland's standard or Yamaha's standard. You may end up with two virtual electric basses using different octaves of the keyboard.

Thanks for the input y'all but I am still a little confused.

But it does seem the "note" is displayed as one note higher than it should be, unless in Canada a C6 on a violin is displayed as a C7.

I have not heard of a Canadian convention.

I know in Britain they can call what we call C4 a C1, but I have never heard of any standard where a C4 is noted as a C5....

Again, this is not a distraction, because it all SOUNDS right on notation when you fix the octave, but it is just a curiosity thing.