BloopMachine: a pocket acid box that loves to misbehave

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BloopMachine

I grabbed BloopMachine the day it dropped and I have been poking at it ever since. Fingerlab built a little monophonic wavetable synth with a resonant filter that takes its cue from the TB-303, then pushes it somewhere weirder. Think glitchy, generative, late night stuff in the spirit of Aphex Twin and Autechre, not a polite acid clone.

The sequencer is where it gets fun. You get up to 32 steps and it can automate pretty much every synth parameter, so a pattern can morph while it loops instead of just repeating. Hit the Mutate function and the whole engine gets shaken up for you, and there is a synth bend function for smearing things around even further. For industrial heads, that is exactly the kind of happy accident machine you want feeding a track.

The full version opens up 48 patterns plus a Song mode to chain them into a timeline, along with real time audio recording and export, preset saving, and undo. The effects section covers ring modulator, distortion, chorus, delay, and reverb, and you can sequence and mutate the effect parameters too, so the FX become part of the pattern rather than an afterthought.

One honest heads up before you go hunting for it on your studio machine. This one is iOS and macOS only, standalone and AUv3, with native Apple Silicon support. There is no Windows or VST3 version, so Windows folks are out of luck on this one.

Price: free to download, with the full version at $6.99 via in-app purchase.

Check it out here: BloopMachine by Fingerlab and the company site is Fingerlab.