Question about bass guitar...in FL Studio 8

[medvesajt]

Hy guys! I know it's not the best place for that question, but i hope someone can help me. I've got a band, but we don't have a bass player yet, so we decided to record a song with some Sound Font Guitarist . There's an application called Guitar Pro 5, where we are writing the music for send it to the band members to learn, getting ideas etc (it's a sort of sheet music/tab program). So, GP5 can export MIDI, and there is where the problem begins. The bass guitar is tuned down a few steps in Guitar Pro, because its a metal band, and when i'm trying to import the midi file into Fruity Loops Studio 8, and adding a Bass guitar sound font, it doesn't play the lower tones. I looked for it in Piano Roll view, and there are the desired tones, but they're as low as FL8 could'nt play it. So, my question is: is there a way to  tune down the sound font bass guitar, or it is pre-setuped and i can't tune it down manually? I hope you understand my problem, and thanks if someone can help me, it's quite important.

[Loopy]

  It sounds like the soundfont is in tune, and you just don't get the lower notes to play because the soundfont, she don't go that low.  This should be very easy to fix.  Fire up Creative's Vienna Soundfont Editor (if you have a Creative soundcard installed) or Viena or some other soundfont editor (if you don't) (the Viena editor is very similar to the Vienna one) and load the soundfont.  Then find the lowest sample/zone (in the instrument pool section, where the lowest note sounds).  Use the slider and extend the zone (left) down 5 semitone increments (or however many you need, just not too many) and save the soundfontfont.  This should work, with everything in tune.  (Always make a backup beforehand, in case of disk/app foulups.)

  If, after using this proceedure, things are out of tune (probably not, use the above proceedure first) you can move the slider that you moved back to where it was originally, copy the lowest sample zone and paste it one or more times, thereby duplicating the zone.  Then you adjust the sliders for each new zone to delineate the new note ranges, and retune each new zone individually.  You may have to add more zones as you go along, just adjust the note ranges and tuning accordingly (do not overlap).  This second, more convoluted method is more for extending or retuning upper ranges, and the method in the first paragraph should work for the low range extension.

  If you have more than one instrument/layer in the preset, it might be a bit more complicated than the one-click solution that will work on most fonts, as you'll have to make the same adjustment on all the instruments/layers in the preset, but you should get the idea.  Just remember it's done with the lowest zones in the instrument (not the preset or sample) pool.