[sdiy] mm5837 are all over the place!

[Harry Bissell Jr]

I did a longer shift register in my Prophet V...
the amplified noise transistors would have had a
vastly different amplitude (not digital with rail to
rail swings) and messed up the factory patches.

H^) harry

--- WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:
> 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