dexed VS Camomile

Did you already find https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed/wiki/Dexed-as-a-DX7-editor ?

There's a full DX7 emulator available for free (think FM8, but open-source). It's at: https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed/releases For the original DX7 sounds (including the classic EPs and basses), there's a .tar file containing a bunch of SysEx backups here: https://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/d.j.benson/pages/dx7/syx/sysex.tar The main page that lists some other files and other general information is here: https://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/d.j.benson/pages/html/dx7.html There are a bunch of sysex dumps in that .tar file, some with other patches, some duplicates, but all worth trying out. The original ROM dumps have names that, oddly enough, start with "rom" (so rom1a, rom1b, rom2a, etc). A page that goes into some good detail on each patch is here: https://www.synthmania.com/dx7.htm By combining Dexed with the SysEx dumps above, you can get a very lightweight DX7 for a grand total of $0. It takes way less RAM than FM8, and it's Apple Silicon Native now, too! I used this plugin a TON for Joseph, to get that 80s synth vibe.

MicroDexed Touch is a fork of MicroDexed which is a port of Dexed for Teensy 3.6/4.1 with a lot more functionality including multiple sound engines (2 x 16 voice DX7, 2x VA Monosynths, Layered Multi Samples, MDA ePiano, 8 voice Mutable Instruments Braids Oscillator), basic audio effects and a 8 track pattern song (tracker like) sequencer.

If you want an FM synth specifically to use in your DAW of choice you have plenty VSTs, both free and paid and even included in FL Studio itself, which do much more than the Volca, but there's a trade-off, you lose some imediacy but get much more power.

I downloaded dexed-0.9.6-win.exe from https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed/releases/download/v0.9.6/dexed-0.9.6-win.zip and installed it in its default location: C:\Program Files\Dexed for the stand-alone app.

How familiar are you with how this sort of genre is produced? You could certainly do it in a DAW, there are cheap/free ones available like Reaper or Bandlab, plus many free VST instruments that you can use as plugins.

Maybe grab Dexed - https://www.kvraudio.com/product/dexed-by-digital-suburban https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed

Its called DETUNE parameter. But I can't find information about units. Issue is discussed here: https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed/issues/88 but I don't know how to interpret that table.

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