Coupla Mono/poly questions

[Jim Patchell]

    If anybody wants to hear a MM5837, go to my vocal filter page and
download the MP3 file.  At the end of the file, I run noise through the
filter.  The noise is generated by a MM5837.  You can very clearly hear
it repeat at a rather obnoxious rate.

http://www.oldcrows.net/~patchell/vocalfilter/vocalfilter.html



Moho Disco wrote:

> When the Mono/poly first came out, its noise source
> was a digital MM5837 chip.  Later, they switched to
> a discrete analog circuit.  It has been suggested to me
> that the reason they did this was because the MM5837
> became rare.  It has also been suggested to me that
> the digital source was not "random" enough, so they
> went with the discrete circuit to get a purer sound.
> My guess is the former, since I can't see Korg giving
> a crap about whether their noise source sounded
> random enough... nonetheless, does anybody have
> any other ideas why Korg might have done this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lava