Camomile VS csound

Camomile is (still) the only thing that will do what you want. https://github.com/pierreguillot/Camomile

I think the first project of this kind was pdvst~ (https://github.com/jyg/PdVst). A more recent effort is Camomile (https://github.com/pierreguillot/Camomile).

PlugData seems to be much more extensive and flexible, though!

You can compile to vst with camomile as well, I wanted to mention.

https://github.com/pierreguillot/Camomile

You want Camomile: https://github.com/pierreguillot/Camomile

I have a different suggestion

you should definitely check Camomile by Pierre Guillot, i managed to run relatively complex patches as audio plugins through it on several DAWs just fine, with midi mapping and preset saving capabilities, however when running my synths as instrument plugins i found a couple of inconsistencies that made them kind of unreliable... i hope it gets better with future updates, if i ever get good at c++ i'd like to help with its development because it truly is an amazing work

There is a project called camomile where you can run a Pd patch as a VST with built in support for building a GUI within the patch and integration with basic DAW stuff like BPM sync.

Camomile - fairly easy way to get Pure Data patches in plugin form; incredible rabbit hole to potentially fall down if you want total control

Nobody has mentioned Csound.

Thank you so much for your appreciation ! I'm planning a blog post abou that... but, meanwhile: I use the following free software: 1) Huygens Fokker Scala to tune files (see below which ones); 2) SynthFont (in combination with soundfonts) to play the files tuned by Scala; The files in 1) are text files essentially representing pitches and durations. I set them up by means of an electronic spreadsheet :) Here's a link to Huygens Fokker Scala: http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/ The underlying logic is definitely an "abc" one, rather than WYSIWYG. I'm still working under Windows, but I'm trying to switch to Linux, so I could need to replace Scala (which still doesn't install smoothly on recent distros) by Csound: https://csound.com/ 🙂 (Scala doesn't install smoothly on recent Linux distros).

Pure Data, cSound, and SuperCollider are all free and opensource. Incredible possibility, though the learning curb can be steep.

For fun, I took a class in computer music. I still did not know what a synthesizer was. Once class got under way, we started using this archaic horrible piece of software, Csound. Not long into the class, it finally kind of dawned on me that synths exist, what they are and how they work, and I started buying gear. Once I had gear, I really really hated Csound, and I wound up dropping the class (Covid had something to do with that). A lot of things started to make sense (Regular Show, for instance) and I got really interested in sound design.

CSound looks interesting: https://csound.com

csound would be interesting to play with.