When I import MXL files from Finale into Dorico, is there a way to filter how the chord extensions are notated? Every time I have an alteration it’s added with (add). ie A7b9 imports as A7addb9.
Is there a way to import an MXL file into a template where the chord symbols are defined?
Is there a way to get Dorico to use Dsus9 instead of D9sus? of Dsus7b9 instead of D7b9sus?
I get Dsus9 if I write Dsus9 in the Shift-Q, chord symbol popover. For the other one, I don’t know. You can always edit/add your own under Library->Chord Symbols, but best avoided. Check all the Engraving Options first.
There have been several new users adding/editing a bunch of chord symbols when it wasn’t necessary.
Jesper
I can get Csus9, But Csus7 isn’t recognized so I alway have to use C7sus. If I type in Csus7b9 it gives me Cb9. Not consistent.
I’m just curious as this confuses me a little. Something like D7sus indicates, to me, that it is a D7 chord with the 3rd raised to a suspended 4th (so no 3rd). Whereas Dsus7 would be a D triad with a suspended 7th (kind of an odd duck, that.) A better example might be Dsus9 (or Dsus6) where the suspension is the 9th (or 6th), again as a regular triad with the suspension in the added tone rather than adding the 4th in place of the 3rd. It makes some sense from the perspective of defining the “altered” triad, then showing the added tones but still seems unusual and makes me stop to “translate” this in my little brain as it is different from what I usually see. (I think I might see - and comprehend Dsus(7), Dsus(9), etc. – with the added brackets – a bit more quickly if one wanted to have the “sus” with the root; or maybe it’s just me!) (Disclaimer— I’m not an expert in this area, just a casual player for 50 years who has to give it up due to arthritis! — Anybody want to buy a used Taylor? 
— Jim
In this notation the Sus has always referred to only the 4th, so Csus7 refers to a Csus triad, ie Root 4 5, with a 7th. So Root, 4, 5, 7. Csus9 refers to a Csus triad, with a 7 and 9 (the 7 is implied). Csus9 in not a C triad with and added 9, that would be Cadd9, Root, 3, 5, 9.
To me it makes much better sense to use Csus7 vs. C7sus, because the Sus refers to a raised 3rd in the triad, which comes before the 7.
In traditional theory they refer to Sus 4, 6, and 9, as a note sustained from the previous chord, but they were also dealing with mostly triadic harmony, and voice leading, which today’s chord symbols don’t.
Yeah, I guess it’s those old theory classes causing me the confusion. I understand and appreciate defining the “triad” first (even if it has the 4th instead of the 3rd) which makes total sense. And I’m sure, if I were playing, that would be my first guess (as the other would seem a little over-complicated or convoluted). I guess it’s just one of those things that I have to force my little brain to accept – that there are different systems and ways of expressing things! (Some of those “Real Book” type lead sheets drive me nuts with the use of “-“ for minor – “C–7” instead of “Cm7” – or the delta for a “major” as in “C▵7”. It takes me a moment to translate it!)
Thanks for responding!
— Jim
