Thanks to Mac & Kelso - the algorithm for converting what BIAB finds in the Sibelius MIDI is very strange indeed. Sometimes it's a 5th with only a melody line and it seems to read a 3rd lower when you provide a relatively straight-forward treble/bass clef score as in traditional hymns!

And then it seems that one dare NOT expect the import will pick up the first note/chord as anything but the start of a measure when it is not written that way in Sibelius.

If there was a way to grab the entire notation score in BIAB and move it one or more beats to the left/right, that could solve the problem, but if I'm only allowed to register one criticism/complain, it would be that the notation editor is light-years behind Sibelius.

This is almost becoming WORK when this is supposed to be my retirement hobby!!!!!

And with regard to:
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Let's root for Music XML support, someday.



Well, OK, but the Sibelius version I have to use can only IMPORT MXML...which it does reasonably well. Perhaps Sibelius 7.x does that, but I have to keep ProTools sync'ed with Sibelius, so not just yet, me thinks.

Thanks again for the advice.
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