Synthesizer
Nerdsynth
A portable digital tracker groovestation with swappable sound chips, built between 2013 and 2016. It never became a product — the NerdSEQ came out of it instead.
Sound came from plug-in cartridges rather than fixed circuitry — the Nerdsynth Sound Adapter, or NSA — so a track’s voice could be swapped like a cartridge. That bus survived: it’s the same idea behind the NerdSEQ’s own expanders today.
The tracker interface and the pattern screen carried straight over, too. The Nerdsynth’s firmware ran on the first NerdSEQ prototype unchanged, because the firmware had been the instrument all along — everything else was packaging.
