There was an error in porting my Sibelius score to Dorico: the Violin II section was imported as a single player. This is obvious from the Setup tab and also in listening to the playback: it’s definitely a solo violin.
After a google search, I created a new, empty-handed section player and moved the Violin II instrument to that player, and voila! the new section player was renamed Violin II, the music for that staff was moved to the new staff, and after moving the new section player to the correct position and deleting the empty-handed player left behind, all appeared to be well.
Only it wasn’t. In playback, Violin II was obviously still being treated as a solo violin. Is there any way to make this conversion so that the change will affect playback?
interesting – I frequently noticed my violin2 imports from Sibelius were changed to solo and never understood why. Clearly I’m not alone. Anyway, welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Dorico. There’s a bit of a leaning curve initially but you’ll get used to it and you’ve already seen it doesn’t take long to get assistance with problems.
Actually, the number of errors I’ve found in importing this score continues to grow: missing dynamics markings, missing slurs (especially in the brass and low woodwinds), missing tempo markings (even ones that aren’t hidden), tempi defaulting randomly to either q=60 or q=120, and many more. I have no idea which of these are due to Dorico’s imperfect reading of MusicXML, or Sibelius’s not exporting them in the first place.
Thank you for the welcome! Yes, answers do come quickly here, it’s an active forum. I wish the documentation was better organised though… is there a standalone version of Dorico Help, or a PDF-format user manual with a comprehensive index, like in Sibelius? The context-dependent help from within the app goes out to the internet, which is not always available here.
Thanks, but this score consists of over 700 bars. Wading through the XML to find the entry corresponding to a particular note sounds like a lot more work than I’m willing to do. And in this case, I’ve already made extensive edits to the imported score, so I’m not keen on going back to working with the original exported MusicXML from Sibelius.
You can download it clicking the three dots on the upper right. In any PDF reader you can show the content on a left panel and you have the index there:
yes – I understand the current Dolet version is better than the one I used for doing my own Sibelius exports where I didn’t find it was an improvement on the native Sibelius.
Thank you! The online version does not have the index, which makes looking things up in it very cumbersome. Several times over the last couple of days I’ve tried to find some Dorico concept in the Glossary, but it seems most of the concepts in the Glossary are general musical terms, not Dorico-specific terms. The PDF version has an index, and the page numbers are even clickable links - VERY helpful!
Well no, because I hadn’t ever heard of it. Water under the bridge at this point, though I have one other score to port and will keep your suggestion in mind, thank you!
There isn’t a listed index in the webhelp like for the pdf, but the webhelp benefits from additional embedded metadata that enhances search results.
You can also use the table of contents on the left to navigate through a reasonably logical structure.
If you’re struggling to find something, feel free to post a question here: it’s useful for me to know if there are particular areas that are hard to find.
