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Unlock Capsule, a simple yet powerful instrument plugin, endlessly updated with fresh sounds, themes, and ideas.
Capsule is an intuitive and innovative synthesis engine that concentrates its intricate sound design into eight easy-to-use macro controls.
Making music production more accessible and free-flowing.
What is Capsule?
Capsule is a cloud-based collection of byte-sized sound libraries referred to as "Capsules".Â
A Capsule is a small collection of chromatic instruments following a very specific sound theme, which can be a certain genre, a particular era, a specific type of sound etcÂ
Capsule is focused on quality and simplicity, each sound is meticulously crafted to inspire and fit into your productions, while at the same time being extremely easy to use.
The instruments are playable via the Capsule VST3 / AU audio plugin and the downloads are managed via the Capsule Portal desktop application.
A World of Sound at your Fingertips
Discover a new breed of inspiring instruments.
One-Click Installs
You can get every Capsule directly - no website or installer needed. Use the desktop app to download your desired sounds, without ever leaving your DAW.
Power Meets Simplicity
Capsule offers an alternative, streamlined workflow with eight macros specially designed to manipulate the most intriguing aspects of each sound.
Capsule Portal
Manage your libraries and sounds with Capsule's intuitive desktop app.
- Download full libraries
- Download individual sounds
- Curate your own collections
- Rate, favorite, and tag sounds
- All cloud-sync compatible
Included Capsules
80's Analog Hits
Infamously Glorious Pop Sonics
80s Analog Greatest Hits is shamelessly high gloss, recreating the definitive tones of the era. Ballsy horn stabs, chorused new-wave pads and punchy bass are 'insta-classic', whilst plucky arpeggios and sizzling analogue synth leads carry a nostalgic sheen; all showcasing a broad spectrum of 80s synth memories.
Sound selections are engineered for radio and club floor perfection, jubilant with the analogue boldness of popâs finest era - a hyper colour sound set, perfectly âin Vogueâ for a new generation to discover. Strike the pose!
Aeolus
Herculean Brass Ensemble
This is the timeless heroic sound of a twelve-piece classical brass ensemble, expertly captured with two microphone positions for natural ambience, multiple dynamic layers, and ten different orchestral articulations resulting in one colossal
sounding instrument.
Rich, warm, and instantly playable with a wealth of expressive controls, Aeolus puts you in the role of conductor for this valiant Capsule.
Aeolus Solo
Solo Brass Titan
Aeolus Solo is the second installment in our orchestral brass series, featuring solo horn and trumpet samples. With expert recording techniques, Aeolus Solo offers a unique and authentic experience of solo brass instruments.
This Capsule includes over 30 different articulations, including round robin, and dynamic crossfades, allowing you to achieve realistic and expressive performances.
Whether you're creating stunning orchestral arrangements, soaring brass solos, or captivating soundscapes, Aeolus Solo delivers the power and versatility of solo brass.
Arco Classico
The Emotive Ensemble
No added tricks, no clever sound design, just the incomparable emotion of a classical string ensemble, expertly recorded. Featuring two mic positions, multiple dynamic layers, and ten different orchestral articulations, Arco Classico puts you behind the baton of a rich-sounding symphonic instrument, designed to pull at the heartstrings.
Arco Ensemble
Intimate Octaves Strings
Unlock a world of rich, emotive soundscapes, this collection combines the haunting beauty of small celli and violins ensembles with the unique touch of octaved notes. Each preset offers a distinct articulation, from sustain and staccato to con sordino and pizzicato, enhanced with vibrato and modwheel controls for unparalleled expressiveness. Whether you're scoring for film, composing classical pieces, or adding depth to your electronic tracks, Arco Ensemble provides the special tone and color you need to elevate your music.
Arco Nuovo
Contemporary Strings, Classically Charged
This is not your average orchestral library. Arco Nuovo is a living, breathing ensemble with a mechanical heart. Layer strings with synthesized and acoustic elements to distort the lines between classical and contemporary; creating
atmospheres that shift between open and airy to dark and sinister. Arco Nuovo melds together celli, basses, and violins to create warped strings, translucent pads, and fluctuating effects.
Choose from 48 presets and expressive articulations including vibrato, tremolo, trills, pizzicato, spiccato, and more.
Arco Solista
Virtuoso Violin & Cello
A sister Capsule to âArcoâ ensemble strings, these solo performances capture the timeless sound of a symphony orchestraâs two leading lights; violin and cello. With multiple articulations, round robins, dynamics and two mixable
microphone positions, these principal instruments lift the spirits like no other.
Pair soaring string lines with other orchestral Capsules for authentic soundtrack scoring, or award them a starring role in your modern hybrid productions.
Black Ivory
Endlessly Expressive
Sampled from a Steinway Model D, Black Ivory is a concert grand with a difference. Not only can it convey the classical, elegant, and rich tones of a traditional grand; Black Ivory gives you 17 unique presets that switch up its sound with
cinematic variations, lush string combinations, and warped articulations. This instrument also includes two different mic settings to add space or intimacy to your mix.
Ether
Beyond the Clouds
Psychedelic swirls, awe-inspiring ambiences, and feather-light soundscapes â itâs all within your grasp with Ether. Stir together shimmering melodic soundscapes that roll and billow, swerving and swaying freely throughout your music - adding movement, momentum, and colour as they go. Choose from a palette of 32 presets, featuring a range of plucks, winds, bells, and pads to add shimmer and shine to any laid-back genre.
Exodus
Signals into Space
Explore the cinematic abyss with the crystalline, captivating sound of Exodus. Create inter-planetary pads, SFX, and otherworldly atmospheres with over 60 presets of bells, keys, strings, synths, and more. Whether you are forming a retro
sci-fi world or floating your listeners through the vast wonders of space, Exodus puts you behind the controls of a sound library that will blast your creativity into new dimensions.
Felt Piano
Intimate Prepared Piano
The soft and introspective sound of the prepared piano is essential for cinematic scoring. This capsule captures the intimacy of a felt piano, an instrument recorded with a sheet of soft felt placed between the hammers and the strings. Lovingly recorded at multiple velocity layers, the achingly delicate tones of this capsule will inspire the most emotive themes.
To widen the breadth of timbres available Capsule Audio also created hybrid patches, combining the piano sounds with a curated selection of other characterful instruments. Finally, Capsule Audio thoroughly abused their piano, placing a selection of objects between the strings which were then struck, scraped and plucked to provide expressive hits, textures and effects.
Use this capsuleâs melodic piano patches for cinematic bliss or the atonal sounds for horrifying shocks. Whatever your project, Felt Piano provides swirls of inspiring notes.
Ghostwriter
Shadow Beats
Step into a realm where chilling soundscapes meet the pulse of trap and drill. This Capsule features over 60 masterfully curated instruments, crafted for those who dare to infuse their tracks with a touch of the macabre.
Experience the deep growl of haunting basses, the eerie clarity of spectral plucks, and the enveloping warmth of ghostly pads.
Ideal for horror film scoring, innovative trap beats, and the darker corners of drill music, these sounds are more than just a collection â they are an invitation to explore the unknown.
Grapevine
Vintage Fuzz
If you need some retro keys with a soulful, smoky feel, this is the Capsule for you. Based on the unmistakable sound of the Wurlitzer 140B, Grapevine focuses on the dusty charm of the â60s and â70s, with a tone that is warm, full, and glazed in nostalgia. Get straight down to business with the default Wurlitzer sound, or shake things up with creative variations that blend its unique character together with synths, pads, strings, and more. Grapevine also gives you the option to choose between direct input and amp signals.
Grit
Music with No Mercy
Grit doesnât knock on the door before entering â it kicks it clean off its hinges. Armed with a powerful portfolio of rough-cut sounds, Grit specialises in distorted 808s, bold brassy stabs, and laser-sharp leads â the perfect knock-out blows for any EDM, trap, grime, or hip hop producer. With 48 presets to choose from, itâs time to inject your tracks with a little extra bite.
Heart String
Plucks of Power
This Capsule started life as a delicately sampled concert harp. Once experiments began, these mutated plucks took a twisted turn. From creamy pizzicato-style picking to crowd pleasing synth twangs, this diverse collection of sounds are just as at home in the club as in the concert hall.Â
Celtic harps, synthetic harps and filthy analog stabs are all conjured from the Capsule engine, with full editing controls for all classic parameters. Plucking hell!
Guitaret
An Electric Antique
Guitaret is a Capsule of reinvented experimental thumb piano sounds, transposed from the mid-sixties to glistening high-resolution modernity. Emotive and atmospheric, the instruments conjure images of vast crystalline caverns, deserted palaces, and otherworldly children's toys. Tonally diverse the presets shimmer with rain, distant choirs, and haunted molecular dust, begging to be used to bring depth and emotion to your music.
Inspired by a cult classic instrument reinterpreted and developed into a new world of sound, Guitaret will both enchant and inspire you.
Lamelle
Percussive Harmonics
Lamelle is an ode to the ghostly, bell-like timbres of plucked percussive instruments such as the kalimba, marimba, e-piano, and Hohner Guitaret. With 48 presets that traverse between plucks, mallets, bells, and keys, Lamelles enriches
the harmonics of its sampled sounds with sustain and body. Synthesized sounds can be combined with acoustic elements to create intriguing transients and effects. Melodic, percussive, and organic, these unique sounds can be layered and stacked to add texture and rhythm to your tracks.
Monochrome
Level Up Your Low-End
Whether you need that elusive funky squelch, a popping disco groove, or a brooding bass foundation -Â Monochrome delivers all the leads, basses, and booms you can ask for.
Designed with 64 speaker-rattling presets, each bass, pad, 808, and lead is made to be playable and expressive - right from the jump. Monochromeâs unique Bass Pads category gives you menacing bass layers, perfect for Trap, Hip Hop, DNB, and Future Bass.
Neon
All of the Lights
Taking inspiration from the timeless sound of vintage synths, Neon dials into the iconic realms of synth-wave, new wave, industrial electronica, and avant-garde pop. Build brassy chords, undulating basslines, and liquid-like pads; then stack
your synth-driven sounds with chorus, flange, and delay to flood your music with broad beams of fluorescent light. Get ready to illuminate your tracks with 64 presets, custom-built to be expressive, playable, and easy to use.
Nightfall
Sounds from 6 Feet Under
Scary sounds to haunt your nightmares, the suspenseful instruments of Nightfall cover twisted timbres, inspired by movies from Alien to Zombieland.
64 nerve-shredding presets include ominous drones, creepy pianos, orchestral shocks, eerie bells, and pulsating pads. Ideal for musicians who need to shock and surprise, these sounds are perfect for macabre modern scoring, blood-soaked beats, or even hard-hitting horror trap. Nightfall strikes just the right balance between frights and delights.
Onyx
Bruised 808s & Snarling Sub-Bass
For urban music aficionados who prefer their 808's disrespectful and their bass seething with attitude, Onyx offers producers a crucial arsenal of low-end fire! Smooth, muscular Reese basses meet mutant hardcore 808s, catapulting conventional hip-hop sound design into the stratosphere! Onyx pushes 808 sonics to distorted extremes, with all sounds radically tweakable using tailored macro controls.
Distinctively engineered for Trap, Drill and R'n'B genres, this playable library of banginâ 808s and deep kick/bass hybrids demands attention.
Polychrome
Polyphonic symphony
Introducing Polychrome, a dynamic sound library that offers a perfect blend of classic and modern synthesis. Get ready for a playful journey through a rainbow of sounds with over 70 presets that will add color to your productions. This synth heaven includes plucks, pads, bells, and keys, suited for both classic and modern electronic music productions.
Crafted using both vintage gear and Capsule's cutting-edge virtual analog sound engine, Polychrome delivers a unique and authentic synth experience. Explore a wide range of tones and textures, from warm and intricate to bold and vibrant.
Recital
Essential Electric Grand
Add a live stage staple to your studio with this game-changing electric grand piano. Bright, punchy, and instantly playable, Recital is your go-to instrument for vintage pop keys. Expertly sampled from an iconic Yamaha CP-80M, Recital gives you the funky foundations to breathe life into any pop, rock, or soul production. Choose between direct input and close-mic signals, and 17 presets that add an alternative edge to its celebrated classic sound.
Retro Brass
Retro Futuristic Analog Brass
These 64 piercing presets include classic retro brass sounds sampled from analog synths and given a modern makeover in the Capsule engine. The distinctive tones will explode from your speakers with thick unison leads, punctuating stabs,
harmonized trumpets and dreamy flutes.
Fully customizable with expressive controls, you can easily conjure gliding hip-hop leads, multilayered horn blasts and full-throated ensembles, all designed specifically for dancefloor destruction.
Retro Essentials
Era Defining Sound
Get your hands on a full suite of retro classics. Containing iconic synth sounds from the 80s and 90s, this collection celebrates the hardware that defined an era. With 64 classic mono and polysynth sounds, here youâll find everything you need to score, produce and play from twenty years of distinctive music.
From funk to glam rock and alien soundscapes, the 80s and 90s were a halcyon period for synths. With Retro Brass, Capsule Audio brought together some of the most recognizable sounds of the time to give you a fresh-out-the-box package of sonic joy. Lush strings, punchy clavs, and mellow analogue keys are all part of the collection.
Retro Strings
Creamy Synth Strings
Influenced by classic vintage gear, this Capsule collects smooth analog strings from synths of yesteryear, with an eye on the future. Â
64 presets showcase a breadth of styles from electro to ambient, with parameters that dive deep into both traditional programming and more esoteric transformations. Luxurious patches inspired by synths and string machines with unique sound design flourishes. Expect sweeping soundscapes, rich pads and the dusty warmth of vintage-era keyboards.Â
Ripple
Organic & Evolving Dub Dreams
From the dusty tape echo of 60âs Jamaica to the reverb-drenched bunkers of Berlinâs iconic clubs, Ripple explores the vast and imaginative worlds of Dub-inspired audio manipulation and sound design. Vinylised strings, vintage horns, and analog bleep-boxes meet rumbling low-end and liquid chord stabs, whilst generative pads, rumbling tech-bass and self-modulating percussion add silicon futurism to a timeless sonic palette.
Inspired by dubâs obsession with spatial and time-based modulation, Ripple offers producers a toolkit of evocative, organic tools perfect for deep and atmospheric sound design.
Sanctus
Heavenly Bodies / Voices of Power / Cinematic Singers / Sing It Loud / Chorus Of Approval / Requiem For Dreams / Beyond Voices
âSanctusâ channels the power and poise of the human voice. Capturing a 24-piece male and female choir, the raw sounds of this Capsule feature sung syllables, both sustains, and staccato. From soft whispers to powerful calls, dynamic control is in your hands.
With a nod to the future, the 50+ patches also include many designed instruments; choir textures blended with string, piano, and synth to create ethereal pads and playable melodics. Explore subtle vocalizations, hip-hop shouts, and mighty ensemble performances all within one diverse and inspiring Capsule.Â
Solid Gold
The Midas Touch
Playing with Solid Gold is like coating every key you touch in honey -Â the sound is clean, versatile, and dripping in character. Sampled from a rare 1974 Classic E-Piano âSolid Goldâ, this instrument can glide between jazz, pop, soul, and
funk -Â dazzling listeners as it goes with its colourful purr.
If you want a retro Classic E-Piano sound with a sprinkle of contemporary culture, Solid Gold lets you blend its well-known tones with modern effects and articulations. You can also switch your sound source between two signals: direct input and amp.
Stratus Drip
Dream Trap Palette
Inspired by the smoothest and trippiest sounds, Stratus Drip is a collection of ethereal instruments for the modern trap producer. These sounds cover angelic electronic pianos, gospel-driven organs, tweaked flutes and bells all the way to heavily medicated synth sounds and slurred 808s, all dripping with emotion, colour and atmosphere.
With a focus on contemporary melodic and harmonic sounds, this Capsule will provide endless inspiration for any future thinking beatmakers who need emotive and otherworldly instruments for their productions.
Thunderdome
Chromatic Skylines
A must-have instrument for cinematic suspense, Thunderdome is a futuristic toolkit brimming with braams, risers, impact FX, and dramatic drums. Its dense pads, drones, and ambiences instantly amplify the emotion of any scene â easily switching from subtle atmospheres to intense walls of sound at the turn of a dial.
Whether youâre composing for a film, TV show, or movie trailer, Thunderdome is the creative thread that weaves between the dramatic, eerie, and emotional.
Zephyr
Delicate Woodwind Ensemble
Pure and clean, the sound of emotive woodwinds is captured in this graceful Capsule. Pare down your productions with the chamber quartet, or feel the glory of a full 12-piece woodwind section. These ensemble flutes, clarinets, oboes and bassoons pull at the heartstrings with poise and detail.
Multiple articulations, dynamic layers and two mixable microphone positions make this versatile Capsule an essential extension to your sonic palette, either for traditional scoring or modern beat-making.
Circuit City
Future Noir Frequencies
Enter the neon-lit streets of Circuit City. Including 64 meticulously crafted presets to immerse yourself in the sounds of a dystopian future with growling basses, soaring leads, ethereal pads, glitchy stabs, and much more. Explore the dark corners of the metropolis and discover the sounds of tomorrow with a range of arps, plucks, and stabs that will transport your listeners to a world of pulsing rhythms and neon lights. Capture the essence of cyberpunk and create dynamic and immersive soundscapes that deepen the atmosphere of your music.
System Requirements
Mac
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra and above (64-bit only)
- Intel processor or Apple Silicon
- AU, VST3
does not yet run natively on M1 Apple Silicon Macs. Installing Rosetta 2 is a prerequisite for running on those machines.
Windows
- Windows 10 and above (64-bit only)
- VST3
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