![]() ![]() I’ve also been unable to open music xml from the iOS version of notion, but a friend has had good results importing from the OSX version of Notion. Oddly, some more recent music xml bundled with the latest version of Encore (not really a ‘version’ so much as the old programme modified to run on modern compiters) does convert but in both Sibelius and Dorico shows peculiar artifacts of timing and spacing. I can’t help feel that different notation programmes’ handling of grace-notes (some later on in this piece) might be what’s hanging up conversions, not to mention slurs, which early Finale and Encore gave wildly different but equally ennoying results with. Thanks for adding to our fund of knowledge here, Rob. Daniel has already commented on the original music xml specification being written by the same person (?) who worked on Finale. The peculiar tuplets are a surprise (the original has none in this section) but it’s at least appearing, and much of the original notation is reproduced. Good old Finale, with which some of these files were also encoded (Finale d seems to ring a bell?), back when I wanted to convert a lot of Encore files into Sibelius (don’t know about this one) back in the day, when it was the only (convoluted) route. I await further instruction or requests, however re-iterating that this isn’t a matter of urgency for me right now, so much as something I’ll want to look at in a year or two, by which time all of these teething troubles will be history.j It is worth stating that the original was entered by discrete step-entry, rather than any attempt to capture a live performance on any of the staves however Sib 7.5, through which I tried to filter a copy of it, adds its own rather wonky ‘live performance’ nonsense, which I’ve never managed to effectively turn off, and the code for the original Encore programme underwent some changes too, in order to be able to work on modern computers (both Windows and Mac: it might be worth mentioning that all of these earlier scores were done in earlier versions of Windows, in Encore and then Sib 1, and that I now do all of my music work on Macs). I suppose it could be a result of poor parsing of grace notes, which occur in a number of spots in this score? This isn’t urgent for me (seeing as I notice you looking at this in the middle of the night) right now, more a proof of principle. The original file has lame attempts to do grace notes, which I tried to fix, and also passing it through Sib and trying some quantization there (not called that). I’m on a late 2013 iMac running Sierra with 8GB RAM In the the meantime I see the programme as a current composition tool, which rôle it seems to fill quite nicely and as a swift, intuitive way of making even older handwritten scores legible and useful, so already thanks for that.j I do hope–and I’m surely not alone in this–that I’ll be able to eventually import my very numerous old scores here, via music xml or MIDI, some of which would greatly benefit from the reduced workflow possible with Dorico. Mostly I’m all right with the programme, remembering too well the clunky learning curves of earlier notation software. So far I’ve not managed to open old MIDI files.opt-cmd-s seems to need to be pressed twice to force a system break.I tend to want to cram as much music on a page as possible for my own use, to minimize page-turns. So far I also haven’t managed to find how I can resize staves. I think I’ve found a layout option to do this but it doesn’t seem to be responding. I can’t seem to change the spacing between systems/staves.Is there a way to make the spacing of notes in senza misura more flexible, so that there aren’t widows/orphans of beam groups poking around the extremities of systems?.I know about the issues with old strangely formatted music xml and am prepared for disappointment here. Is there a way to clean up time signature and beaming assumptions in an imported score from a music xml? Forcing note values doesn’t seem to make much headway against the power of long-dead barlines.appearing when it’s a solo or a part on its own. ![]() I can’t seem to find a way to hide or delete the short names of instruments, specifically I don’t mind ‘Guitar’ showing on the first system (although it would be nice if it didn’t, since solo music usually has what the instrument is on the cover etc.), but thereafter there’s no point in Gtr. ![]()
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