When I'm not writing about all the coolest tech items and awesome gear on sale for Prime Day, I'm a musician—a terrible ...

Before Sequential Circuits unleashed the Prophet-5 in 1977, synthesizer presets were a rarity – most often relegated to non-programmable instruments like ARP's Pro Soloist.

Not a piano keyboard but a computer keyboard. Even the way that musical events are numbered: not 1-16 but 0-15, so a 4/4 kick pattern gets notes on 0, 3, 8, 12 and not 1, 5, 9, 13.

In this paper, we first propose the prescaler-type PLL frequency synthesizer with multi-programmable divider and multiphase detector for the speedup of lock up time. We next propose a method for the ...

A wide-band frequency synthesizer architecture for software defined radio applications is presented, based on a dual-VCO SigmaDelta phase locked loop (PLL), with a wide-range modulus programmable ...

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