How it works

There is no SmartMedia memory chip inside SmartMare. A small processor emulates a SmartMedia 4MB 5V card for your gear, and keeps your data in its own memory. Its software, the firmware, can be changed from your computer, and comes in two versions.

Two firmwares

Same card, same price. We install the one you choose, and you can switch any time from your computer.

Generic firmware

For any SmartMedia 4MB 5V gear

Emulates a SmartMedia 4MB 5V card, plus exact backups on your computer.

  • Works like the original: your gear formats the card, saves and loads.
  • Exact backups of the whole card, kept on your computer.
  • Put a backup back, or erase the card to blank.
  • Firmware updates from your browser.

On your computerCard Manager

Learn more Try Card Manager
SP-202 firmware

A custom firmware for the BOSS SP-202

The same card, with a custom samples loader for the SP-202.

  • Your own WAV files on the pads, in every quality, mono or stereo.
  • Every pad back out as a WAV, including what you sampled on the SP-202.
  • Each pad set from your computer: trim, gate, loop, effects.
  • Whole kits kept on the card, loaded in seconds.

On your computerPad Editor,the custom samples loader

Learn more Try the Pad Editor

Same card, same price: €57–77. The SP-202 firmware is not another card, just a custom firmware for SmartMare. Both firmwares are free on the downloads page, and you can switch as often as you like.

The card

The same card, whatever the firmware. In the slot, it has the size, thickness, notch and 22 contacts of a SmartMedia card. Outside, a handle carries the USB-C port.

SmartMare seen from above, to scale, 84.5 mm long. The first 45 mm, 37 mm wide, go into the slot like a SmartMedia card. 39.5 mm stay outside, with a handle 48 mm wide and the USB-C port at the end. USB-C 5V notch front panel 45 · in the slot 39.5 · outside 84.5 · total length 37 48
Top view, to scale, in mm.
In the slot
45 × 37 × 0.76 mm: the size and thickness of a SmartMedia card, with its 22 contacts and the 5V notch
Outside the slot
39.5 mm, with a handle 48 mm wide and the USB-C port at the end
Total length
84.5 mm, where a regular SmartMedia card is 45 mm
In your gear
emulates a SmartMedia 4MB 5V card, ID 98h 6Bh, like an original
On your computer
USB-C: a drive with the card manager, no driver to install
If it fits, it works.

Any gear that takes SmartMedia 4MB 5V cards takes SmartMare. It is just longer than a regular card: 39.5 mm stay outside the slot. The list of gear

Open source, and growing

What the card does today is a start.

Open source

The firmware, both card managers, and the notes on the card and on the SP-202's sound format. The source code will be published.

Flash it any time

Switch firmware or install an update from the card manager, in your browser. No button to press, nothing to install.

More to come

More features are on the way. Tell us what you would like in the pre-order form.

SmartMare · €57–77

Either firmware, same card. No payment now: we email you before the first batch.

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