A long thin glass tube with a metal cap on the bottom and six pins and an exhaust tip on top, one pin in the side. Donor’s card reads: “Backward wave oscillator made by Stewart Engineering Company, ...

The circuit was created to produce an oscillator operating at low frequency for use in the production of electronic music and experimenting and testing tone controls. Oscillator – an electronic ...

Today we’ll take a journey into less noisy noise, and leave behind the comfortable digital world that we’ve been living in. The payoff? Smoother sounds, because today we start our trip into analog. If ...

A crystal oscillator is a timing device that consists of a crystal and an oscillator circuit, providing an output waveform at a specific frequency. When a crystal is placed into an amplifier circuit ...

Oli Larkin is responsible for VirtualCZ, a plugin emulation of Casio's classic CZ hardware synths from the '80s. Who better, then, to explain the science behind the phase distortion synthesis methods ...