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Can anyone offer advice on how to edit SFZ files? I want to add one more note (35, a bottom B) to the range of the Pipe Organ - Flutes GIFF instrument.

The SFZ has these two entries:
The first one is for a single note, rather than a range. So I tried replacing with , but I get the wrong (one semitone higher) notes played. I'm presuming it has something to do with the loop start and end values, though I don't know what these are or how you calculate them.

I can achieve an OK result by repeating the first line, with . But I'm hoping there's a better way.

I have done it, but not very recently. I remember that when I did do it, I had to enter the (same) new ‘lokey’ and ‘hikey’ values in two completely different places. Perhaps look to see if these figures occur again a second time in the sfz text.

Someone else will probably have more precise information.

Does this help? http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=5&m=406289

I've read the other posts and the MM help article.

They all seem to suggest that just changing the lokey value will fix it: that's not my experience, and it is made more problematic when the lowest region data is one note, not a range.

However, I've discovered there's a transpose data key. So copying the lowest region data, lowering the key value y one and replacing "tune=0" with "transpose =-1" seems to work for this limited instance.