[sdiy] SMT transistor for white noise?

[Gordonjcp]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 01:10:09AM +0000, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
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> While you _can_ screw up the implementation, LFSRs are a solid technique for good quality audio noise. There's no way you can tell the difference. There's really no need for "truly random" noise unless you're running a lottery.

Another neat property of LFSRs is that with correctly-chosen taps they will output a permutation of all their possible values except 0 (there must always be at least one bit set). This is for example how the Wolfenstein 3D "fizzle fade" effect is achieved. I feel like there's some sort of very clever arpeggiator in that, somewhere.

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Gordonjcp