I’ve encountered an issue after upgrading to Dorico 6. When working on imported XML projects that were previously fine in Dorico 5, I’m now seeing 1 or 2 duplicate chord symbols appear unexpectedly in the score. This only happens in Dorico 6 — the exact same project files behave normally in version 5. And happens in most files. Holy Spirit (Getty) 23310 (in Eb).musicxml (2.3 MB)
To rule out the usual suspects, I’ve confirmed that all the MusicXML import options are unchecked, so it doesn’t seem to be a setting related to importing or reinterpreting the harmony data.
Has anyone else run into this? Is it a bug, or is there a new setting I might be missing in Dorico 6 that’s interpreting things differently?
Any insight or workaround suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
This is unfortunately down to a problem with a new feature in v6.0.10 that is designed to import multiple rows of chord symbols. We hope to have a fix in the next maintenance release of v6.
Probably related to this behavior - I’m now noticing in Dorico 6 that with XML imports (at least mine from Finale), chords are assigned to seemingly random lines, which can then cause them to not horizontally align properly in Dorico.
With the new chord behavior in Dorico 6, it would be great to somehow solve that import issue. (Perhaps Dorico should automatically assign single chords to line 1, and any multiples sequentially up from there?)
I’ll get something together I can share, but I have discovered it has something to do with how Dorico interprets the vertical position from the XML file ("<harmony default-y=“XX” where XX is the visual, vertical offset in the original file.). In my original exported XML files, all of these Y values are at various different settings, but if I reset all of these default-y settings to 0 (zero), then they all import in chord line 1.
@dspreadbury Thank you for this info, and for being so present.
In the meantime, (with the help of ChatGTP) I’ve made a little app that will reset all the vertical positioning (default-y) in an MusicXML document to zero - if anyone would find this useful, let me know.
