[CmdrKrool]

The fundamentals of sound synthesis are things like oscillators, delays, filters etc as you see in Miller Puckett's book, and teaching materials tend to lean towards environments like Csound, pd, SC etc for their practical exercises because they all contain roughly equivalent implementations of those fundamental tools, albeit wrapped in some uniquely opinionated structural or UI paradigm, in each of those environments.

If you think as a programmer you might be happier around low-level things, take a look at Soundpipe, which contains those same fundamental elements again - often with the same or similar names to their equivalents in the above programs - but in plain C code.

https://paulbatchelor.github.io/proj/soundpipe.html

For something a little more 'live' and high-level built on that library by the same author, check out Sporth, or another guy's browser-based embedding of it called AudioMasher - which has some very nice examples.

https://paulbatchelor.github.io/proj/sporth.html https://audiomasher.org/

[noobly]

Soundpipe looks great, thanks!