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Re: format conversion questions
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Darius Blasband |
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Re: format conversion questions |
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Tue, 23 May 2006 11:51:09 +0200 |
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Atte André Jensen wrote:
Darius Blasband wrote:
We are currently looking at the possibility of using Lilypond as
typesetting back-end for Finale.
Sounds very interresting, at least I know now that serious people is
taking this seriously :-)
Well, I would definitely not consider myself serious :-) and the truth
is that there are not so many people fascinated by these issues...
My problem is that Finale is a good tool for me as a composer, as its
playback facilities are unmatched (that is, as far as I've seen so far)
but the scores it produces suck. And their part extraction facility is a
joke.
So, having had some fantastic experience with Lilypond, this was a
natural way to explore.
The Finale export of MusicXML seems to be decent (There was a bad
glitch with old Finale 2005 versions though) and importing it
in Sibelius gives appropriate results, except for percussion stuff,
violin markups, rolled chords. There might be other defects in
Sibelius's
Finale's importer, as we have not performed a complete sanity check
on this.
Does this mean that it's not possible to export musicxml directly from
sibelius?
As far as I know - I'm no Sibelius expert - you'll need a third party
tool for this:
http://store.recordare.com/dolet3sib.html
The bad news is that it's a third party, so you'll have to pay extra.
The good news is that it's a third party, so they are
pretty commited to the task. On the darker side, it seems that the
MusicXML import facility (flawed, as I indicated earlier)
is part of Sibelius.
P.S.: Any help at financing the MusicXML stuff is welcome... I think
there is still somewhere around the 700 Euros to be spent
on this before a "common" score can be translated seamlessly,
with dynamics, annotations, grace notes, and tons of other depressing
details...
Exactly what "MusicXML stuff" are you refferring to? The xml -> lilypond
or the export/import from finale/sibelius, or...?
xml -> lilypond
For the rest, I use recordare's plugins.
I might be able to raise money, if 1) the stuff will work reliably and
2) I can get a real project going developing this idea (my initial
"share music between teachers" thing) myself. Started to make phone
calls regarding the legal side of things, will know more tomorrow...
Darius.