The score opcodes '{' and '}' have been introduced starting with the
version 2.6 of DirectCsound. So I suggest you to download the present
release (2.7).

The URL is:
http://www.agora.stm.it/G.Maldonado/download.htm

Where did you get the archive 'directInstall.zip'?

-- 
Gabriel Maldonado

http://www.agora.stm.it/G.Maldonado/home2.htm



Dew Drops wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a newbie to CSound and was trying to use the loop Gabriel Maldonado
> demonstrated, but haven't been able to figure it out (I'm using DirectCsound
> Version 2.5). This is my sco file:
> 
> { 10 nn
> 
> ;ins strt   dur   amp
>   i2 $nn   .25    1
> 
> }
> e
> 
> and I get this error:
> sread: illegal opcode {, sect 1 line 9
> 
> What am I doing wrong ?
> 
> Do I have to do something different to use DirectCsound as opposed to CSound
> ?  I'm just using the csound.exe that came with the DirectInstall zip (there
> are no other exe's with it).