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herpes.... I mean.... o god... um....WHAT I MEANT TO SAY WAS... an Elektron Analog Rytm, some money, and some vinyl.

This is pretty rad. The nomad really is impossibly noisy.

I am pretty into this kinky stuff.

unfortunately due to hardware limitations there are only 4 stages of pw available for the the pulse channels of the 2a03 chip. its the same as a game boy's pulse channels. a limited choppy one with an lfo or envelope like i suggested earlier shifting through the 4 duty cycles is about as good as you can get really.

There are methods of manipulation that can be employed by taking advantage of some clicks caused by writing commands to the chip at a high rate. if done at regular highspeed intervals it will begin to make a tone that with alternating intervals can make a PMW type sounds. It has to be extremely fast tho and would be really intensive to control. x|k used this method in some of his old tracks before he disappeared. I havent really seen it implemented since.

and how would you even interface with that tracker with out any knobs or buttons? touch screen? there are already trackers for that on android, iphone, and tablets. do those not count? I am assuming we haven't reached the point where we control our technology with our minds yet. voice command perhaps?

would be into this.

An amazing soundtrack and one of the best/underated games on the system.

Also.... It is my personal opinion that FM synthesis people depend too much on other peoples patches. Learning to actually use FM synthesis is not that hard with a little reading and experimenting. I can tell you from my experience with both trackers/synthesizers side that toms are totally possible and emulations of most sounds can be done with a bit of planning and thought. For toms or any kind of sounds you just got to break down what you hear in real life and apply that to the envelopes in FM world.

the thing about synthesis is that it only is limited by the mentality of the user. you can avoid 80's sounding synthesis if you don't program for it. its as simple as that. today a lot of dubstep producers use FM because of it's agressive sound and how it distorts with effects. FM synthesis actually was well liked because it was better at emulating real sounds then traditional synths.

if you could make an NES groove station that would be sweet. if it was made like in the elektron style of machines like the analog 4 and analog rytm you would have a solid live performance tool.

A hardware 16 step system with parameter locking, LFOs for the pulse triangle and noise channels for pitch/dutycycle/amplitude, envelopes for pitch and amplitude , and mono mode where you could combine the 2 or even 3 channels for detuning/thickening/multiple layered sounds, channel seperation stereo mod on the chip for seperate processing and routing, and finally importable samples for durms etc. add midi in/out and you would be done and have a live beast for jamming with. 

Another route is to build it like a monophonic synth that could stack all 5 layers of pulse/tri/noise/dpmc. Add Lfo's and envelopes to control parameters and add midi control.

I personally am way more into the groove box idea.