[sdiy] MM5837N noise generator... any for sale ? alternatives ?

[Gil W.]

Hi,

Thanks for the tips,
I think I'll try using the original component first...

;)

--- John Mahoney <jmahoney at gate.net> wrote:

> At 09:28 AM 2/19/2008, harrybissell at wowway.com
> wrote:
> 
> >The MM5837N sucks as bad as any BBD (imho). It has
> a 1.1
> >second repeat rate and goes tick-tick-tick. I can't
> believe they
> >even considered it.
> 
> It is so bad that it was in the first generation
> Mono/Poly and was 
> replaced by an analog noise generator in later
> models. The digital 
> noise sounds like a train, it's *so* bad (in the
> traditional sense of 
> "bad" meaning "not good").
> 
> One mildly interesting thing about the 5837 is that
> -- as far as I 
> can tell -- the clock frequency is dependant on the
> supply voltage, 
> meaning that you can vary the voltage to get
> different sounds. 
> Meaningless with regard to the P5 but possibly of
> interest to experimenters.
> 
> The 5837 (or any digital source with a short bit
> length) is 
> potentially interesting as an input to a sample and
> hold, because you 
> can get "random" patterns that repeat. I think that
> Buchla had some 
> sampled digital noise modules that worked along
> those lines.
> 
> In the P5 you should just install an analog noise
> source, IMHO.
> 
> John
> 
> 
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