When I working with samples and write in example C-0, or C-8 in patern editor, I get message from renoise:
“Note C-8 is out of range,
a valid range is between : C-1 - B-7;
adjust sample rate of the current sample”
I can’t speak for the seemingly arbitrary note range, but if you want to bypass this, you should be able to use ‘transpose’ in the Instrument Settings tab.