I can recommend Curtis Roads' Computer Music Tutorial which talks about almost known synthesis and how they work on computers in general. That knowledge can be used in csound, pd, max/msp...its written rather general.
http://www.block4.com/research/edu/literature.html
Cheers,
Malte Steiner media art + development -www.block4.com-
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