- Puckette, Miller: The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music ISBN 981-270077-3 Online Version
- Kreidler, Johannes: Loadbang ISBN 978-3-936000-57-3 Online Version (english, deutsch, español)
- Farnell, Andy: Designing Sound ISBN 0-262-01441-6 obiwannabe.co.uk on Archive.org Code examples
- Zimmer, Fränk: Bang: Pure Data ISBN 3-936000-37-9
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- Brinkmann, Peter: Making Musical Apps – Real-time audio synthesis on Android and iOS ISBN 978-1-4493-1490-3 (e-Book ISBN 978-1-4493-1489-7 )
- Barkl, Michael: Composition: Pure Data as a Meta-Compositional Instrument ISBN 3838316479
- Matsumura, Sei: Pd Recipe Book ― Pure Data ではじめるサウンドプログラミング ISBN 978-4-86100-780-4
- Miyama, Chikashi: Pure Data チュートリアル&リファレンス ISBN 978-4862671424
- Lyon, Eric: Designing Audio Objects for Max/MSP and Pd ISBN 978-0-89579-715-5
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