But I have an old Sib big band file I’d like to bring into Dorico. Did the transfer, and pretty messy.
I can live with the Sib file only, but wonder if there’s a bit of wisdom that might help the process. Don’t expect a press-the-button, and magic happens.
My advice is to go the application Prefs and uncheck most of the options for XML import. This may seem counter-intuitive, but it means that Dorico is free to do what it wants (which you can then define easily in the Options), rather than locking itself to the beaming/layout etc of the original.
I leave Text on, and that’s about it.
Otherwise, you’ll need to show us a picture, at least, of what’s gone wrong.
I’m guessing those notes aren’t supported to be like that?
Select All and Press O to turn off Force Duration. But it looks like you’ve got a tiny note ‘out’ somewhere earlier, which is affecting everything that follows.
John, there are two ways to export a Sibelius file to .xml
First there is Sibelius’s built in xml conversion, which does a decent job. Still it is advisable to get the newest Dolet Plugin into Sibelius, which does a much better job in catching all your notation details.
In your case I would try the Dolet Plugin (newest version) for a better .xml export.
You might get a better result , when importing that into Dorico.
the new Dolet isn’t compatible with Sibelius 7 which you say you have. I found the older version if anything worse than native Sibelius export. But all this is in the past as I did my last Sib conversion some time ago and Dorico import has changed and improved in the meantime. A few have certainly found that Dolet 8 (which works from Sib Ultimate 2019.5 or later) is the current way to go.