I was using Scamp with Lilypond with High Sierra OK. When I updated to Catalina I needed to update Lilypond. Following the instructions on the Lilypond site I ended up with a folder holding binaries not a nice app that I could just drop into my applications folder like last time. Can anyone explain what I am meant to do with this folder so that it will work with Scamp? (I tried putting it into the applications folder but it didn’t work. I didn’t really expect it to.)
Thanks Jonathan
What version of SCAMP are you using? I think I should be able to detect it if you just plop it in the applications folder.
Hi Marc
Thanks for the response. I was using Scamp 0.9.1 post 3. I have now updated to 0.9.2. Unfortunately it still doesn’t seem to find Lilypond. I then updated all the other bits and bobs so now I am running
Scamp 0.9.2
python-rtmidi 1.5.5
pynput 1.7.6
scamp_extensions 0.3.3
abjad 3.19
Lilypond is now in The Applications folder. It is in the form of a folder called lilypond-2.24.2
It still didn’t work. After running your test script I get the rising piano sound but then the following errors.
from scamp import test_run
test_run.play(show_lilypond=True)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 2, in
File “/Users/jonathanclark/Library/Python/3.10/lib/python/site-packages/scamp/test_run.py”, line 49, in play
score.show()
File “/Users/jonathanclark/Library/Python/3.10/lib/python/site-packages/scamp/score.py”, line 652, in show
assert abjad() is not None, “Abjad is required for this operation.”
File “/Users/jonathanclark/Library/Python/3.10/lib/python/site-packages/scamp/_dependencies.py”, line 164, in abjad
raise ImportError(
ImportError: abjad version 3.4 found, but SCAMP is built for versions 3.17-3.18. Run pip3 install abjad==3.18 to upgrade.
Thanks for your help
Jonathan
This should solve it; the newest SCAMP requires a newer version of abjad.
Hi Marc
Yes, I have now got Lilypond to work. Thanks for your help. I’d like to take this opportunity to say how much I enjoyed your YouTube videos “Hearing Pascal’s Triangle”, “The Fibonacci Music Box” and related videos. Very thought provoking
Jonathan
Thanks so much! At some point, I’m going to put out an explainer video for the pascal’s triangle piece. 