PS: Based on previous interactions in this forum, I’m setting clear boundaries. Derrek, asherber, and Janus: your previous comments were not procedurally helpful and included personal attacks on my professional credibility. Derrek, your remark that I may not be “the best person to advise” Dorico actually undermined the progress I was making in organizing training sessions in Riga, Latvia. I wish to restate: I am a human being and I literally received tuition remission for teaching technology while getting my Master’s Degree. I provide good technical training and musical instruction, and Derrek’s remarks were very hurtful. Unless you’re prepared to apologize for past behavior, please do not comment on my threads. I require procedural solutions, not commentary on my communication style or qualifications.
OK, I have made some progress. 20 years ago, my process was to input the music on staves that I would then hide. Dorico “sees” the hidden staves. I removed them from Finale, and I am getting a bit of a cleaner file in Dorico, however, I am also seeing this error message and have now installed “everything possible” using the Steinberg Download Assistant 2x.
I installed Indian Drum Basics, but don’t understand why that would be “essential.”
Also, I apparently have both Dorico 5 and Dorico 6 on my system – I downloaded everything, installed everything, and thereby thought I’d updated everything.
To me, it looks like I have downloaded and installed everything I possibly can.
I hear ya man on some replies here on this forum and even the FB DOrico for Finale users. Some guys seem a little short when they answer and think we all know Dorico inside and out like they do. I am reluctant to use the forum if I can find help elsewhere but there are some very good, very helpful people here so just hang in there man.
As to the Finale XML transfer, I agree sometimes it is simply awful. A couple things I have tried and sometimes they help. One is to use the uncompressed XML. Perhaps it is just a second rendering but sometimes that helps. Another one that seems to work even better is to XML the Finale score to Musescore and then XML that file to Dorico.
One thing I have to say is, if the Male Music team had as good of support as the Dorico team has Finale would likely still be around.
Underlying I see “Parsing of online version check failed“.
Searching the forum for this message suggests another program might be interfering access to the Audo Engine. That might be another program, a zombie process left over from a crash, or maybe you are trying to run Dorico 5 and 6 simultaneously?
