Hi there
I'm new on this forum so I hope this was not already discussed...
These are some questions for Sibelius music-xml developers.
I am using a computer-aided composition composition program called PWGL
( http://www2.siba.fi/PWGL/ ), which is pretty much like OpenMusic from Ircam but... better and free :)
It contains a fine musicXML exporter since a few months. The library for the export can be found here : http://sprotte.org/perm/musicxml-pwgl.html
Most of the tests were done by the author, Kilian Sprotte, in Finale Reader, not in Sibelius.
I did a few ones myself with Sib 6 and 7, and most of the details are well transfered, like dynamics, some expressions (slurs, fermata, accents, tenuto, etc.) and even quarter-tones. For now this is quite good ! =)
Strangely, a few details go wrong, even with Sib 7 :
- metronome changes are displayed very very small, even when they come from xml done in Sibelius itself (this can be annoying, even if filters can solve it quickly)
- nested rhythms, which are perfectly imported in Finale, are strangely coming into Sibelius, sometimes eating some values with no reason
- grace notes, for which the display can be strange too (this can be solved quickly with "middle of beam" button) ; most of all, grace notes at the end of the bar just disappear...
I attach some examples with screenshots of PWGL and export to Finale (which proves the export is fine from our side) and Sibelius equivalent file.
I also put everything in a zip file that can be found here :
http://www.mediafire.com/?5dyn8az7zf7xi9o
I perfectly know these two examples are a bit extreme, but I'm sure I'm not the only one dealing with this kind of stuff... :)
Do you think this could be solved in future updates, as you're doing a lot of efforts on MusicXML right now? I think it doesn't concern only me or PWGL community, but the differences on how Finale and Sibelius handle this.
Many thanks in advance for your help
All my best
Julien
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Sib. 7.0: advanced XML import from PWGL (compar... - Julien Vincenot, 23 Aug 04:15AM
Re: Sib. 7.0: advanced XML import from PWGL (co... - Daniel Spreadbury, 23 Aug 08:15AM
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