I am thinking that this syntax for calling subinstruments may have been
removed in favor of the UDO mechanism, but I could be wrong.  You can
accomplish pretty much everything (and more) with UDOs that you can with
subinstruments.  The subinstr opcode takes care of those corner cases where
you really want to call another instrument.

Anthony Kozar
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Carlos Pita wrote on 12/14/08 7:41 PM:

> Hi all,
> 
> http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/instr.html states that:
> 
> """
> If an instrument is defined with a name, you simply call it directly
> like an opcode:
> 
> asig MyOscil iamp, ipitch, iftable
> """
> 
> But I get errors when calling a named instrument like that. OTOH, the
> same invocation works fine when done through subinstr.