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PLUGIN WEEK 2025: It's likely that we're all guilty of periodically shunning our existing repository of plugins and VIs, and splash out on a shiny new synth, hoping it’ll provide us with a fresh, ...

The democratization of music production has meant that just about anybody can make music from their personal computer. As a result, there's a lot of great music coming out from people who wouldn't ...

A special technique produces very wide loop BWs in high-frequency PLLs (and hence, indirect (PLL) synthesizers), thereby achieving very low phase noise rivaling that of direct (MMD) synthesizers. A ...

The ARKCHIPS PLL is a versatile and stable general-purpose frequency synthesizer with phase synchronization(de-skew) Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) : feedb ...

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 ...