SIBELIUS 8 UPGRADE UPDATE
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I use Sibelius Ultimate but how much that effects the import/export I do not know. (Easy fix: save a clean copy in Sibelius before exporting) They usually donвЂ™t show any signs of this in Sibelius but it will show up in the xml file. YouвЂ™ll figure it out when you play the imported score back in Dorico.ДЄlso -if your files are old (more than two years) or used frequently they might get corrupted (it happens). A tricky thing to watch for is tempo markings - sometimes they transfer, sometimes they donвЂ™t. You still will have to do cleanup regardless but that is not the fault of Dorico or Sibelius: the music xml standard does not account for everything (although they are getting closer). ItвЂ™s the plug-in вЂњSimplify AccidentalsвЂќ.Д«est practice for importing from Sibelius (for me) is:ДЎ - Only export the score - not the score and parts.Дў - Eliminate all вЂњcueвЂќ notes - these seem to throw off the importДЈ - Convert the typeface to Norfolk (since that is the closest they have to SmFl) For those still actively using both, it will presumably eventually be fixed but thereвЂ™s an easy enough workaround вЂ“ even if it may mean offending DoricoвЂ™s Holy Rules of Enharmonic Spelling. Sibelius have just confirmed this is a reproducible bug in their export (concluded by my re-importing the MusicXML back into Sib). This can easily be seen in the attached bar 122 when compared to the previous one which is correct. What happens is that the second time the accidental appears, it is simply cancelled with a natural thus the note is played a tone too high or low and is not corrected if the note appears subsequently. After studying it for a while, I noticed that most and perhaps even all were caused when a double accidental is repeated in the same bar. Fortunately in the majority of cases, simply dragging the line into the correct place sorts the issue. Gradual tempo changes are sometimes shown with the dotted line running past the new tempo which leads to some pretty odd results. In fact there are only two things which are significant annoyances for me personally still. IвЂ™ve found that with Dorico 3.5 with appropriate settings, itвЂ™s generally easier to get techniques interpreted correctly and with better placement of dynamics than previously. which IвЂ™d previously thought not worth the hassle.

SIBELIUS 8 UPGRADE UPDATE

In other words, par for the course with MusicXML as a medium.ДЄ quick update on this as its possible that with the new Note Length feature, I may finish up importing one or two scores from Sib.

SIBELIUS 8 UPGRADE MANUAL

Other than the last, in general, I havenвЂ™t seen anything particularly devastatingвЂ¦a cleanup script would go a long way to reducing the manual fix-ups. This results in a roundabout Sibelius->FInale->Dorico import (which usually resolves it.)

Sometimes Dorico just doesnвЂ™t like the XML file.

A handful of positioning/spacing things which are usually fixed by going through and turning off any manual placements that Dorico accepted from the incoming XML file and letting Dorico re-position to its liking.

Immaturity in the XML spec causes different approaches to fingering notations to not be correctly imported into Dorico.

Some notations not yet supported by Dorico can dissappear.

Placement of some directives can be interpreted incorrectly going into the properties for the directive and letting Dorico automatically reposition generally fixes it.

This became problematic for me when a crescendo go attached to the last bar of a flowвЂ¦

Certain linked notations like crescendo/decrescendo sometimes get attached to barlines rather than notes.

Speaking only for myself, with the few incidental score that I moved from Sibelius 8 to Dorico, things IвЂ™ve noticed:

What kind of problems are you having, specifically?

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