What exactly does the Nopia Mk1 do?
Nopia Mk1 flips the standard keyboard idea: press one of the twelve keys on its multitouch capacitive strum plate and you get a full chord, not a single note. A 12-button Tonal Selector and an Extensions Dial let you dial in exactly which chord you're playing, from a plain C to a Cmaj7 or Cmaj9, and you can still strum, bend or pick individual notes out of the chord you've selected. Under the hood, four separate sound modules, Keys, Bass, Arp and Pad, run a hybrid sample-based and virtual-analog engine, each routed out through its own dedicated TRS MIDI output so you can drive four different pieces of outboard gear at once.
Why did it take three years to ship?
Argentina-based Martin Grieco and Rocío Gal posted a prototype demo in 2023 that pulled 2.6 million views in eight days, the kind of number most gear companies never see for a finished product, let alone a proof of concept. Three years of engineering later, Music Radar's July 2026 preview called the production unit "basically finished," and Grieco himself put it simply: "After three years, we finally have a date!"
"It's basically finished."
What do you actually get for $650?
Pre-orders open on Kickstarter on September 15 at a $650 Super Early Bird price before tax and shipping, a tier that historically sells out fast on viral crowdfunding launches and typically prices well below the eventual retail figure. The real-wood cabinet measures 41.5 x 23 x 3.5cm and packs an OLED display, MIDI in/out, USB-C, a sustain pedal input, master and aux audio outputs, a built-in looper and arpeggiator, plus onboard filter, delay, reverb, saturation, tape emulation and beat repeat effects.
