Re: format conversion questions

[Darius Blasband]

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.