[sdiy] mm5837 are all over the place!

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I'm guessing that the majority of MM5837's were sold to drum machine makers.  
That is, organ manufacturers who had beat boxes built into their organs 
(Thomas, Lowery, etc.).  If you're just using it to make "snare drum" and "hi hat" 
noise, with short little decay envelopes, then the cyclic pattern repetition 
would not be much of an annoyance.  On the other hand, in synths?  Shame on 
Moog, Sequential, and everyone else who wussed out and used those in their synths 
instead of amplifying selected noise transistors.

Michael Bacich