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Mac Power Users

89: Music Workflows with Composer Johnny Knittle

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2012

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Professional musician and composer Johnny Knittle joins Katie and David to explain how he produces music for television and film. This episode also features new MPU theme music written by Johnny.

Transcript

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Mac Power Users episode 89, workflows with Johnny Niddle. Well, hello everyone. I bet you heard some new theme music. We have a special guest here

0:20.9

today with us, Johnny Nittel.

0:23.0

Hey Johnny.

0:24.0

Hello.

0:25.0

And our special guest is the man behind the new intro music.

0:29.0

So we thought, what better episode to introduce his workflow than on the debut of the new theme music. I kind of like it.

0:35.2

Well if you don't like it I really like it. I had nothing to do with it. Yeah I

0:40.6

really like it. Well Thank you very much.

0:43.0

So as we mentioned in our, I guess, the whole behind the scenes podcasting show that we did,

0:50.0

how we've been using this garage ban loop, which I really like as well, as our theme music for not quite 89 shows now, or not quite 88, because we had a couple of shows with different theme music.

1:02.0

And we experimented, we really wanted our own theme music for a while, and we experimented. of theme music for us and we just really didn't have the time to do it ourselves that we wanted to put into it.

1:16.0

And Johnny wrote us and said, hey, this is what I do for a living and can I help you guys out?

1:22.0

And it was a very generous offer and David and I looked at some of your stuff and we said oh my gosh this guy's really good

1:29.4

Thank you very much

1:30.7

Wirthing and this gave us a dandy chance to talk to somebody who produces

1:35.8

music every day on his Mac for his living. That's how he pays for his shoes. So Johnny,

1:39.8

before we get started, just tell us a little bit about what you do.

1:43.4

I am mainly a television composer with mostly what's called library work.

1:49.8

That's what I do, my main gig, my main bread and butter.

1:53.6

So I work with mostly with a company named Diamond Mine Productions

1:58.5

and we do the music for CBS Syndicated

2:01.0

and Telepictures.

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