Hackaday

Logic Noise: Sweet, Sweet Oscillator Sounds

Welcome to part one of a series taking you down the rabbit hole of DIY electronic synthesizers based on (largely) CMOS logic chips. Instead of synths being commodity gear made by large corporate ...
Hackaday

Logic Noise: 4046 Voltage-Controlled Oscillator, Part One

In this session of Logic Noise, we’ll be playing around with the voltage-controlled oscillator from a 4046 phase-locked loop chip, and using it to make “musical” pitches. It’s a lot of bang for the ...
EDN

Philips integrates logic functions to boost oscillator performance

In a continuing drive to reduce board space, power, and cost, Philips Semiconductors this week unveiled the first multifunction logic device in its PicoGate family. The 74LVC1GX04, designed for ...
EDN

Logic device suits crystal oscillator apps

The 74LVC1GX04 crystal driver combines the functions of an unbuffered inverter and a drive into a single logic device, reducing component count and saving board space. A member of the company's ...
9to5Mac

The Logic Pros: iPad/Mac synths still can’t quite capture the experience of this $1,000 Moog

In this week’s episode of The Logic Pros, we are taking a hands-on look at Moog’s Sub Phatty synthesizer to see how it stacks up against some of its much more affordable virtual counterparts. Moog ...
9to5Mac

The Logic Pros: How to create Retro Synth patches with custom wavetables and multi-voice stacking

In this week’s episode of The Logic Pros, we will take one final look at some of the new additions to Logic Pro X 10.1. We have already gotten a taste of a number of very helpful new features ...
Electronic Design

Gated Oscillator Starts Without Delay

This Idea for Design shows how proper component selection can help reduce startup time for gated oscillators. 3. The scope image shows the CMOS gated oscillator with no startup delay. The yellow line ...