PWM is the brainchild of Paul Whittington who, besides the name, bestows the company with a wealth of music-related product design experience. The brand's products so far have very much been a ...

Phase-locked-loop (PLL) frequency synthesizers are signal sources often employed in many types of electronic equipment. They show up as clock sources in high-frequency instruments and as local ...

When you think of simple synths, what components come to mind? All you really need to make one is an oscillator, an amplifier, and some kind of input such that you can play different notes. Our ...

An electronic system requires a reliable, precision timing reference: the system clock. We examine and compare two forms of system clocks, the Crystal Oscillator and the Phase Locked Loop Synthesizer ...

Musicians and DJs searching for a combined synthesiser and MIDI controller may be interested in the Miclop Ctrl X, which has been designed by a development team based in Madrid, Spain. The Miclop Ctrl ...

In its mixed-signal chips, Silicon Laboratories employs a frequency-synthesis technique for clock generation that it calls DSPLL: now, it is launching a range of frequency-source parts that embody ...

After previously unveiling their prototype Korg NTS-1 synthesiser back in May, Korg has this week announced the availability of the new DIY synthesiser which comes supplied as an easy to assemble kit ...

The price of entry into the world of modular synthesis has been trending downward for sometime. Moog even recently released the Mavis, a DIY Eurorack-compatible synth for just $350 – a shockingly low ...

Korg debuted its Nutube tech a couple years back, but so far the tiny vacuum tubes have only surfaced in select products. Nutubes have been used in a distortion pedal and a mini guitar amplifier head, ...