live play music with scamp?

hi,

this looks like a cool project! I was a little confused when I opened a terminal and saw that playing notes got me this error regularly:

>>> from scamp import *
WARNING:root:abjad was not found; lilypond output will not be available.
>>> s = Session()
>>> piano 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
    piano
NameError: name 'piano' is not defined
>>> piano = s.new_part('piano')
Using preset Piano Merlin for piano
>>> s.start_recording()
Performance([
   PerformancePart(name='piano', instrument_id=('piano', 0), voices={
      '_unspecified_': [

      ]
   })
])
>>> piano.play_chord([65, 77, 78])
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
    piano.play_chord([65, 77, 78])
TypeError: play_chord() missing 2 required positional arguments: 'volume' and 'length'
>>> piano.play_chord([65, 77, 78], 0.5, 1)
>>> piano.play_chord([65, 62, 78], 0.5, 1)
WARNING:root:Clock is running noticeably behind real time (12.88869 s) on a wait call of 1.0 s; probably processing is too heavy.
>>> piano.play_chord([65, 72, 78], 0.5, 1)
WARNING:root:Clock is running noticeably behind real time (3.29461 s) on a wait call of 1.0 s; probably processing is too heavy.
>>> piano.play_chord([65, 72, 78], 0.5, 1)
>>> piano.play_chord([65, 72, 78], 0.5, 1)
>>> piano.play_chord([65, 72, 78], 0.5, 1)
>>> piano.play_chord([65, 72, 78], 0.5, 1)
WARNING:root:Clock is running noticeably behind real time (7.83958 s) on a wait call of 1.0 s; probably processing is too heavy.
>>> piano.play_chord([65, 72, 78], 0.5, 1)
>>> piano.play_chord([65, 72, 78], 0.5, 1)
>>> piano.play_chord([65, 72, 78], 0.5, 1)
>>> piano.play_chord([65, 72, 78], 0.5, 1)
WARNING:root:Clock is running noticeably behind real time (0.68803 s) on a wait call of 1.0 s; probably processing is too heavy.
>>>

It looks like the "session" concept is designed for immediate playthrough of a score. Is there a way to use this as a "server" of sorts? I want to be able to leave something running and then send notes to it based on changes in another environment (software, tangible interface, etc) and have it play those... or alternatively code up a state machine in python using scamp that responds to some kind of input (OSC messages from a TUIO command, for example)

Thanks!

MarcTheSpark / scamp

live play music with scamp? #1