Hello! New here obviously (a student not a Dr., that's just my handle), been watching and reading lots of tutorials and my interest in Pd has been peaked. I seem to be a little different from the average Pd user though, so I still haven't found a definitive answer to if Pd (or some comparable audio programming language) is suited to my purposes.

I make electronic pop music. So far I've used only traditional DAWs like Logic. However, there are things on the sequencing end that I'd like to do, specifically changing the parameters on synth patches and plugins in a much more "sequenced" and organized fashion (and tighter control on how the sounds move through time in general), that are cumbersome or impossible to do on any DAW I've used.

Further, I love the idea of a synthesizer and sequencer all in one, like vintage synths of yore, that I can just record right to audio without always having tracks and tracks of MIDI sequences staring at me in the face. I'd love to ditch all the software I currently use for a super-minimal setup with just two programs, like Ardour and Pd, one for audio editing/mixing and one for the synthesized/sequenced sound part.

But I use almost exclusively traditional "analog" synth sounds... not particularly experimental. I've yet to hear a song made purely with Pure Data that sounds anything like the kind of music I make (you know, funky bass/groovy beats/lilting melodies etc). I've no doubt Pd is capable of doing what I need, but is it practical? I've absolutely no experience with computer programming, would it be worth my time learning Pd or should I seek solutions elsewhere?

Does anyone here use Pd as both your primary sequencer and softsynth? ...To make pop music?

That track is awesome. I'm pretty well convinced to at least give it a solid try. So is subtractive synthesis possible in Pure Data, or do you always have to start with pure sine waves?