<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div>On Dec 1, 2025, at 8:21 AM, cheater cheater via Synth-diy <synth-diy@synth-diy.org> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>A PLL would mean completely digital control, wouldn't it?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>PLLs are analog. I'm not sure what you mean by "digital control".</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Do PLLs like that respond well to audio rate modulation?<br></div></div></blockquote><br>PLLs are often used for FM radio demodulation, so yeah.</div><div><br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Low bass on a Theremin sounds pretty good.<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgPgasgoVbU<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's an even goofier video!</div><div><br></div><div>Theremins can have a problem with very low notes because the two oscillators can sync up as their frequencies get really close.</div><div><br></div><div>So yeah a flip-flop on the output is reasonable feature.</div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div> -- Don<br>--<br>Donald Tillman, Palo Alto, California<br>https://till.com</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>