New memory cards for vintage samplers.
SmartMare is new hardware that emulates a SmartMedia card: your gear sees an original card. Those cards stopped being made years ago, and used ones are rare and expensive. And SmartMare has a USB-C port: plug it into your computer to back up the card. Two cards: SmartMare 5V, to pre-order now, and SmartMare 3.3V, coming soon.
SmartMare 5V · €89 delivered in Europe · $99 delivered in the USA, import duty paid
SmartMedia came in two voltages, and so does SmartMare: SmartMare 5V for the BOSS SP-202, SmartMare 3.3V for the BOSS SP-303 and the Zoom SampleTrak ST-224.
For the BOSS SP-202: emulates its SmartMedia 4MB 5V card.
Price€89 Europe · $99 USAdelivered
For the BOSS SP-303 and the Zoom SampleTrak ST-224, with their 3.3V SmartMedia slot.
Priceto be announced
Reserve your cards in the first batch.
The next page asks for your delivery address and your card. Paying there places an order with an obligation to pay.
A small, thin memory card from the late '90s. Samplers, grooveboxes, synthesizers and early digital cameras saved their sounds, songs, settings and photos on it. It came in several sizes and two voltages, 5V and 3.3V: SmartMare 5V emulates the 4MB 5V kind, and SmartMare 3.3V is coming for the other. Nobody makes these cards anymore, and used ones are getting rare and expensive.
There is no SmartMedia memory chip inside. A small processor answers your gear exactly as a SmartMedia 4MB 5V card would, and keeps your data in its own memory. Your gear cannot tell the difference. That is also what lets SmartMare talk to your computer over USB-C.
SmartMare 5V is made and sold for the BOSS SP-202, the only gear we have tested it in. Other gear with a 5V SmartMedia slot takes the same kind of card, but SmartMare 5V is not tested in it yet, so we do not sell it for that gear. Tell us which one you have on the contact page: it helps us choose what to test next. Note that SmartMare is longer than an original card: 38 mm stay outside the slot, with the USB-C port. The gear · Exact size
The one your gear takes: its manual says SmartMedia 5V or 3.3V. 5V and 3.3V cards have their cut corner on opposite sides, so a card of the wrong voltage does not go in. SmartMare 5V is for the BOSS SP-202. SmartMare 3.3V, coming soon, is for the BOSS SP-303 and the Zoom SampleTrak ST-224.
The software SmartMare 5V ships with. From your computer, you put your own sounds on the SP-202's pads and get its sounds back out as WAV files. A generic firmware is also a free download, for your own experiments; it is not tested outside the SP-202.
No. Plugged into a computer, the card shows up like a USB stick with its own page on it. Open it in Chrome or Edge (a recent Firefox works too) and you are ready.
Yes, in your browser, no card needed: try the demos.
€89 delivered in Europe, $99 delivered in the USA with the import duty already paid: nothing more to pay at your door. The shop opens with the first batch. Until then, a pre-order costs nothing: we email you when the shop opens, and you buy only if you still want the cards.
Yes. The firmware (GPL v3) and the card pages (MIT) are on GitHub, and more features are on the way. Tell us what you would like in the form.
No. SmartMare is an independent product by Electronic Stable, not affiliated with or endorsed by Roland Corporation (owner of the Roland and BOSS trademarks) or Toshiba (owner of the SmartMedia trademark). Their names are used only to say what the card works with.
Every card has the 24-month legal guarantee and 14 days to return it. CE, WEEE and product safety registration are in progress and will be done before the first card is sold. Where each one stands, and how to use the card safely: Safety & warranty.