Powerhouse

Powerhouse: a wavetable and granular synth for Ableton Live

Powerhouse is a wavetable and granular synth plug-in made by Lessons in Live: four oscillators, one powerful filter, modulation you drag onto any knob, an arpeggiator, a chord sequencer and nine effects.

• Four wavetable oscillators with eight tables (from basic shapes to vocal, FM, sync, resonant and spectral sounds): sweep through each table, warp the waveform (bend, sync, mirror, pulse, FM) and stack up to 7 unison voices for huge, wide sounds.
• Granular mode on every oscillator: the table turns into a cloud of grains, with size, density, spray and random pitch, for breathing pads and shimmering textures.
• One powerful filter for all oscillators: low cut, high cut, band pass, notch, peak and two tuned combs, with four characters: Clean, Ladder (Moog-style), Acid (303-style squelch) and Vintage (warm and singing). FAT and DRIVE for extra weight.
• Modulation you drag onto any knob: four LFOs, a mod envelope, velocity, key, random, mod wheel, aftertouch and MPE pressure and slide. Drag on a knob’s ring to set the depth, as in Serum.
• Eight macros for Live’s automation and MIDI mapping; the factory presets come with theirs named and wired.

• Arpeggiator with eight modes, up to 4 octaves, latch and a 16-step pattern (notes, rests, ties and chords, each with its own velocity, octave and length), and a 16-step sequencer with a chord on every step, in key and scale, with dice that roll new patterns.
• Nine effects (crush, drive, chorus, delay, reverb, stutter, flanger, reverse, grain) and an XY pad that plays many knobs with one gesture. Locked to Live’s tempo.
• Poly, Mono and Legato with glide, MPE (Push 3, Seaboard, LinnStrument), a resizable window.
• 160 presets in Bass, Leads, Chords, Pads, Arps, Sequences, Textures and Effects, with favourites.

Formats and systems

VST3 and standalone app, for macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows 10/11 (64-bit).

One purchase, both systems

Buying gives you both the Mac and the Windows version and one serial number for two of your computers, for example a desktop and a laptop. You’ll find the serial in your order e-mail and under My account. Updates are free and announced inside Powerhouse.

Free 30-day trial

The download works as a free 30-day trial: install it and play. After the trial it keeps working in demo mode (a short silence every minute) until you enter your serial.