The pressure pad

Play it like
you mean it.

At the heart of LAB-1 is a pressure-sensitive pad — press harder and a note blooms, swipe and it strums, lean in and it sings. Expression that feels human, not like tapping a grid.

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Try it — sound on

This is the pad. Play it here.

A taste of two plugins running on the pad. Swipe the strings to strum; switch to Pad for a surface where position is pitch and pressure is dynamics.

A taste of the pad — a plucked-string voice, played in your browser.
On the device: two screens, true pressure sensing, and the full plugin platform.

Runs the real OS in your browser — a demo track plays the moment you tap in.

The headline difference

A surface that feels how hard you mean it.

The pad turns gestures into dynamics, vibrato and timbre. The same surface strums a guitar, bends a lead, or fingers a chord — because every plugin can read it. It’s the part you have to feel to understand.

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PRESSURE · X · Y
one expressive surface
read by every plugin

One instrument, a whole studio

Everything to start and finish a song.

A complete workstation in a machined-aluminum body — no laptop required.

LAB-1 — machined-aluminum portable instrument with two screens and a keyboard.

Synths & sampler

A growing roster of synth engines plus a streaming multisample sampler — load your own sounds, play them across the keyboard.

Drums & sequencers

A drum machine and step sequencers for fast sketches and tight grooves, with pattern chaining that scales to full arrangements.

A real recorder

Multi-track recording with per-track instruments — not a four-track toy. Capture an idea, then keep building to a finished track.

Effects & mixing

Reverb, delay, drive, EQ and a mastering chain on board, so the sound that leaves the device already sounds finished.

Bring your own sound in

Internal mic, USB-C audio, and a switchable line/instrument input — sample the world, plug in a guitar, capture a take.

Plenty of room

Onboard storage plus an SD slot keeps your sounds, samples and projects with you.

Not just an instrument

It runs Capsule — an open platform.

Developers build new engines, effects and tools — like the ones you just played — and ship them to every LAB. Your instrument keeps getting better after you buy it.

The platform story →   Build for Capsule →

Capsule Lab
LAB-1
your portable laboratory
designed & assembled in vancouver

Founding Crew

Reserve your LAB-1.

Not ready? Just join the list — no charge. Ready to claim your place in the first run? Reserve below.

The first hand-assembled run

$899$999USD · founding price
  • A low serial number from the first hand-assembled run
  • Founding Crew status — and a say in what we build next
  • Just a $20 reserve today, fully refundable, any time

No charge beyond the refundable $20 reserve. Refundable any time before your unit ships. By reserving you agree to receive email from Capsule Lab about your reserve.

RESERVED ✦ FOUNDING CREW

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RESERVE #000

This is your provisional position. Your low serial is assigned in order when production is confirmed — and you can change your mind any time.