Anybody Else Notice This?

Dorico
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Hey, All
I have a question about assigning library instruments to a Dorico project from an imported XML file. It seems to me that, when assigning sounds to an xml file that I import that they don’t sound as good and are more problematic than when I write a work in Dorico. It doesn’t matter if I use HSO, Iconica, VSL, NP (with or without NPPE and my Synchron/Spitfire libraries) templates, none of them seem to sound as good or work as well as when used in a native Dorico composition. Of course, since it’s Dorico, they look great after tweaking them; they just don’t play the same. I’m curious- has anyone else noticed this? Or, is it just me?

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Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say they “don’t sound as good”?

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You could try resetting playback overrides.

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Hi @laughreyg, sometimes the Instrument Definitions after a MusicXML import are not correct (due probably to incorrect informations of the XML file): some instruments are labelled apparently correctly, but if you see their Instrument Definition, they are being assigned to a different instrument.

I would suggest, after an XML import, to go through all your instruments (or the ones that sound not as expected) in Setup mode, click on the three little dots near the instrument name > Change Instrument and choose the correct desired instrument. Then, to be sure, reapply your Playback Template from menu Play/Playback Template.
This should adjust the assignments of the Instruments, Expression and Percussion Maps accordingly to the Playback Template

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Thanks, guys.
I’ll take your suggestions for future imports. It wasn’t that the instrument sounds were bad, but the playback was -in terms of how the notes’ durations and articulations played back. It’s not a big deal since I do 99% of all my work natively within Dorico. I knew it wasn’t a Dorico issue. Composing these two problematic works in MuseScore Studio and then importing them into Dorico was probably not a good idea, anyway. What happens in MuseScore should stay in MuseScore :wink: Although, some of the MuseScore libraries from Orchestal Tools, Spitfire and Cinesamples sound pretty good- especially considering that they only cost $20-40 bucks each instead of many hundreds.