Hi, regarding MusicXML: I’m trying to convert compositions from Finale 27 to Dorico 6.2, but only parts of the pieces come out correctly, as you can see. Has anyone encountered this and found a solution, I’d be grateful?
I can’t speak specifically of your case (Finale to Dorico), but in general when I have problems with MusicXML importing, I will use a third program to clean up the MusicXML file and sometimes it helps. Going from Finale to Dorico, if you have Sibelius or MuseScore installed you could try loading the MusicXML file into them. If the import seems to have worked better, I’d then re-export a new MusicXML file from that application. That new file might import more successfully into Dorico than the original MusicXML file did. It’s just getting a second opinion on the file, and sometimes it helps. Maybe someone else can give you more specific advice about your file, I have not had to export many things from Finale so far.
Tuplets can, under certain circumstances, cause a Dorico XML to choke.
AS @Derrek says, it is almost certainly a problem with how the lengths of tuplets were calculated in the source program and encoded in the xml.
If this happens, unfortunately Dorico does not handle it gracefully.
If you cannot resolve the issue in the original program (or a different app - as @GeorgeJolly suggests, MuseScore is more tolerant to these errors and provides some tools to fix them), it is sometimes simplest to delete the offending tuplets and try the import again (adding the notes back manually in Dorico).
In Finale, select all and run the Check Region for Durations plug-in on the original Finale file. (Don’t run it on the XML or it won’t catch the errors.) Fix any errors that it finds. I also then run Document / Data Check / File Maintenance too. After doing those, re-export the MusicXML file. Does the new file import into Dorico correctly?
Thanks for all the suggestions. I went for a solution of converting each part separately, and building a new score from there. Then it turned out that there were a few bars in the 1st and 2nd violin that ruined the conversion of the entire score.
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