Music xml import help from the legacy Notion software

Dorico
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There is not going to be a Notion 7, it’s official. They are going down some barmy Mobile only route (even though it works on desktop)…whatever.

So…I have hundereds of scores as music xml files I am importing into Dorico and it does an amazingly good job…except for dynamic markings which I cannot get to go across to Dorico no matter what I set the Dorico music xml import preferences to.
Any ideas?
Oh and hello btw, I’m now fully Dorico’d up.

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Could you upload an xml that fails?

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Where did you hear this? Could you provide a link?

Thanks

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Sure:

Accompaniments Styles.xml.zip (10.4 KB)

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If you go to presonus.com and click on the link to Notion 6, here is the address

…legacy.presonus.com / products / Notion

I guess it’s legacy software from now on…

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Hmm. (Edit) It looks like Dorico objects to the dynamic tag being inside the note tag?

You could import into MuseScore and re-export from there to get the dynamics into Dorico.

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Thanks Janus, appreciated.

I’m wondering anyone from Dorico might be able to tweak the import function? I know they are always working on it.

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IIRC There was a similar thread a couple of weeks ago (perhaps about dynamics not being inserted if they were associated with a chord? Again it was a peculiarity of how Notion encoded things)

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I did a search forNotion/import/musicxml but nothing came up with this problem.

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It was from GuitarPro, not Notion, but the general issue is similar…

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Thanks, yes, similar.
Going via Musescore is going to be a lengthy process but I guess I need to bite the bullet.

Works!

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That’s disappointing. Notion 6 is a great and user-friendly program that integrates with Studio One and has respectable sounds out of the box. Also 200 study scores in Notion format. Before my happy switch to Dorico, I used it as much-or more- than Finale. Its big drawback, is in its score and page formatting. Not so great there. And, if it’s now a legacy program, that won’t ever be fixed, apparently. :thinking:

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This is incorrect. That’s just a subdomain. Their warranty, tutorial, and contact pages are also on the legacy. subdomain.

What mostly likely happened is they built a new site, and some old content has been ported/moved over yet.

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You can likely “automate” conversion with a script around the musescore cli. Options seem to be listed here (that should allow for import and export): Command line options | MuseScore

But haven’t tested it myself.