I am creating a library of flute music from my collection. I create a music XML file in soundslice.com and then import it into Dorico. It works about 80% of the time. Usually, there are many errors that are created during the process, but I can work through them to get an error free Dorico file.
This file failed to import properly. Bars are blank after bar 16. I tried with all import checkboxes off and then with the note and rest duration boxes checked. Same result.
It looks OK on soundslice.com even though the usual amount of errors are present. I also downloaded MuseScore and tried the import. The file looks very similar to the one generated by soundslice.com - usable, but with errors.
Why is this happening in Dorico? Are there any settings that I can adjust to improve the importing process? Handel Sonata 3 in A minor FP.xml (1.3 MB)
If the bars are blank after a particular point then the most common reason will be that something about some tuplets in the MusicXML don’t “add up”. Because Dorico doesn’t relate everything to bars/measures in the same way as other notation apps do—notes don’t “live” in a bar in Dorico, and you can have different barlines on different staves—it has to rely much more on the exact durations of the notes and rests themselves. It’s easy for this sort of thing to go wrong when tuplets are involved, particularly tuplets in multiple voices. If you post the file here then someone can take a look.
Thanks. I just edited the original post to include the file.
I have tried editing in soundslice before the xml export but the tools and process are somewhat primitive and frustrating. Maybe I will do this in MuseScore before the Dorico import.
Yes, as I suspected, the problem here is that there are some tuplets in a multi-voice passage in b.15 of the piano that are incorrect. I assume the intended music is that the upper voice in the RH should have a minim followed by a tuplet, and the lower voice in the RH should have two crotchets and then two quavers, but the MusicXML actually puts tuplets in both upper and lower voices. This means that all the subsequent notes are out of step with the tuplet structure. This looks to me like some sort of bug in Soundslice.
You are correct. See the attached image with soundslice OMR results in the top half and the scan in the bottom. The light gray notes represent another voice. There is a triplet in bar 15, voice 2 of the piano part. Sadly, this is typical for music OMR with soundslice.
