One of the direction of its work is innovation of projects in electronic music. Before 1990, the NCL's primary activities involved performing projects to order for industrial enterprises. During that time, it developed several products, including Data Filer for musical instruments, Car Sound Processor, Telegraph Adapter and the Music Computer, which was the first computer based on Apple II to be produced in the Soviet Union. At present, the NCL is known in Russia as a scientific-industrial firm with limited production of equipment using updated components.
Scientific research forms a considerable part of the laboratory's work.
Particular focus is on the fundamental question of the expressiveness of electronic music. In many respects, the expressive characteristics of electronic music are predetermined by synthesis, and the laboratory's specialists see their search in this direction as a fruitful one. This suggests that the next step in the development of electronic means of producing music will involve transferring the sound extraction laws and norms of expressive intonation that function in music as an art form. Rather than making use of the traditional wheels and joystick, the original structure of the Integral Controller has six independent parameters, that give the musician free rein to influence performance and control synthesis in real time. The main purpose of the SE System program is to model the rendering process with due regard for instrument structure, performer physiology, sound extraction technology and standard laws of intonation.