[sdiy] mm5837 are all over the place!

[harrybissell]

Hmmm.... data book says

features
- uniform noise density
- uniform noise amplitude
- eliminates noise preamps
- self contained oscillator
-single component insertion

applications

- Electronic musical rhythm instrument sound generators
- Music synthesizer white and pink noise generators
- Room acoustics testing/equalization

So the suits love it for that "single component insertion" and by the time
its designed
in and someone actually LISTENS to the little piece of sh!t... its too
late.

I'd agree that for percussive noises, you might not notice the warts... and
the Room acoustics
use is actually good

I wonder if Bob Pease knows anything about this chip ?  Maybe we could get
some history :^P

H^) harry

David Cornutt wrote:

> On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 09:27  PM, harrybissell wrote:
>
> >
> > Its a useless chip. It IS only good for something like room
> > equalization,
> > where the
> > consistancy and repeatable noise MEANS something good.
> >
> I don't know the history, but I'm guessing this IC was never intended
> for musical uses.  If it could run at a high enough frequency, it would
> have been the perfect thing for spread-spectrum radio.