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Can you do white/pink noise with a CMOS/lunetta?
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:53 am    Post subject: Can you do white/pink noise with a CMOS/lunetta?
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hello,
i was asked by a friend to fill an exhibition space with sound and i thought it'd be a good idea to fill it with noise Twisted Evil

i could use 1000's different ways to do it but i really like the idea to do it in real time with a 9v powered lunetta circuit

i had a look around but haven't found anything that would use a CMOS as the heart of the noise producing device

and ideally i should be able to modulate the noise with some sort of lfo etc..


any suggestion?

thanks a lot!

aero
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 5:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I might be wrong, but I think digital noise generating circuitry is always going to result in noise which has an inordinately large amount of high frequencies, coupled with very specific lower frequency bands. It's a type of noise to be sure, but nowhere near white noise.
For real white noise, the best easy option is something which "listens" to a reverse biased PN junction. In other words,..... a noisy transistor through an amp.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I've done a fair amout of playing with digital LFSR noise generators. I've found that the more stages one uses, the more white it sounds. Filtering can then be used to produce what sounds pink. I would use no less than 32 flipflops in the shift register. One thing I tried was to clock the LFSR from a VCO - this changes the band in which the noise exists, the higher the clock rate, the higher in frequency the band of noise goes.

Unfortunately, I've not found much on the spectral characteristics of LFSR noise - however, it sounds "white" to my ears.

I think that it's worth a try to throw a circuit together and see if the character of the noise is what you need.

EDIT ADD: I did better Google searches and found several sites that said an LFSR can be used to generate an approximation of white noise. My guess is that the more stages and the faster you run the clock, the better quality (i.e. closer to real white) you will get. I've found this to be quite true while experimenting with one of my FPGA-based synthesizers in which I use a 64 bit shift register. I found that fairly simple digital filters can be used to change the spectrum character quite radically.

The main advantage to this kind of noise generator is the consistency from built unit to built unit and output voltage is high, so an amplifier is not needed as is the case with diode noise generators. There is no "pick the best component" stuff to horse with either.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Please call me daft if I'm missing something, but - couldn't u use the (cough cough) 'standard' 4069 amplifier setup (or 2 or more in series) to amplify the reversed PN junction? That'd be no more'n a tranny and a single chip op'ing off of a 9V battery. Smile
Tranny - 100k - 4069 with 1M feedback - 100k - 4068 with 1M feedback - nonpolar cap - output.

?? Smile Actually - I could bread board this and hear how it sounds. Very Happy

Edit: (A couple of hours later) I just found this circuit here. It's using the 74ALS04 (Low Power Schottkey Inverter) as the amplifiers, as well as the 2nd transistor. Guess I'll have to try out my own version of it, with a CD4069 and see how it goes. From there, other uses can be determined. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

The 4069UB used in linear amplifier mode soft clips, that is, there is a moderate size linear gain region centered at (Vdd-Vss). Above and below that, gain fades out. I'm sure this would color the noise you'd generate unless you limit the amplifier's input to stay within the linear region. I've used this fact to make a simple tri to sine waveshaper.

A 4007 might be interesting to try as an amplifier, it's got several MOS transistors that you could use separately. (I like to think of the 4007 as an MOS transistor array...).

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

ScottG wrote:
The 4069UB used in linear amplifier mode soft clips, that is, there is a moderate size linear gain region centered at (Vdd-Vss). Above and below that, gain fades out. I'm sure this would color the noise you'd generate unless you limit the amplifier's input to stay within the linear region. I've used this fact to make a simple tri to sine waveshaper.

A 4007 might be interesting to try as an amplifier, it's got several MOS transistors that you could use separately. (I like to think of the 4007 as an MOS transistor array...).


Ooooooh! Now, that's for that tip Scott! Smile Would you've any URL's with examples of suchness around? If not, I could go and search for them myself for examples. If I'm recalling correct, I have 1 or 2 x 4007's that I'd bought for some other purpose which I didn't produce and ...... can't remember. Embarassed I could use one of them for this. Smile

Also, thank you for cluing me in on the 4069 I'd much rather have as much of the tranny's audio range as possible, for later processing. Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I don't have examples of using a single 4007 transistor as an amplifier, but since it's just an MOS transistor, then some sort of generic schematic ought to be around (perhaps in some MOS transistor datasheet).

If you look at the data sheet for the 4007, you can see that the only gate dedicated to being an "inverter" is the far right one (pins 9,11 & 12) and even here, at least one of the transistors could be used as a "loner". The other two offer the use of each of the P and N MOS transistors as loners. One should be able to use at least 3 separate transistors in the 4007 package (the gates are tied together for each complementary pair). One must be careful, however, to keep in mind the fact that there are parasitic diodes. As such you may or may not be able to use both P and N MOS transistors in a given inverter location at the same time depending on the exact application.

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