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Welcome to Episode #11 of the iOS Music And You Podcast, the place where we discuss making music on the iPad and iPhone! We’ve got some inspiring stuff ahead of us, including an iOS song with a cool twist, and absolutely essential app pick, a quick tip that will save you time in BeatMaker 2, and a great interview. We’re talking with a smart iOS musician in our interview, Pete Plural, who goes by The Clocktoys online. He’s found some interesting ways to use iOS app to come out with a very cool blend of indie rock and electronic sounds.

In the first part of this episode, we check out a very interesting track from Supersonic Tartan Death Machine. The sounds are certainly inspiring, and they combine two elements into something new and undeniably cool – Bagpipe-Driven Electro-Celtic Fusion. That’s right, this music puts together real bagpipes with apps like AmpliTube, Audiobus, BeatMaker 2, djay, Figure, FourTrack, GlitchBreaks, Impaktor, NanoStudio, Remaster, SunVox, studio.HD, ThumbJam, Turnado, and GarageBand. It’s an epic journey that goes places you’d never expect, consistently inspiring you along the way.

There’s so many of you putting out great music from your iPads and iPhones and I want to feature your music on the podcast! Do you have a song that you’d like to be played on the next podcast? Submit your music by sending me a link to your song on SoundCloud.

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In next piece of the show, I get into an app that has become an essential part of my music making experience – Turnado. This multi-effects processor can do some amazing things to your sounds, putting very high quality reverb, chorus, filters, and more onto your music. I go over the basics of what the apps holds, then I mash up some DM1 beats using Turnado. While I show you the basics of what you can do with this app, I’m really scratching the surface here; this is an incredible app. I highly recommend Turnado, and after hearing some of these sounds, I think you’ll agree – you’ll definitely want to pick up Turnado.

I also get into a quick tip that will hopefully save you some time in your BeatMaker 2 work. I’ve been taking advantage of the Audiobus compatibility in BeatMaker 2 quite a bit recently, but I’ve run into some MIDI issues. There’s really a quick fix for my problem; so if this is something that you’ve been encountering, I hope this speeds things up for you.

I know that there’s so many great ideas out there about apps and how to use them, and I want to share your ideas with the world! If you’ve got an app suggestion or a quick tip, send them my way – Submit your ideas by sending me a message .
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The last part of the show features an interview with iOS musician Pete Plural, who goes under the band name The Clocktoys online. The iOS platform really lends itself towards electronic music, but Pete has taken a bit of a different direction, blending electronic sounds with an indie rock aesthetic. He comes at this music from a different background as well, having starting with an interest in sound production and working his way back towards more traditional approaches. He’s also a musician that dived headfirst into music production on an iPhone and then took a look back at desktop studios. After some experimentation, Pete found his way back to iOS, seeing the need for a blend of both of both platforms. Overall, Pete offers a unique perspective at making music on iOS, giving us some good thoughts throughout the interview.

The strength of Pete’s musicianship comes through fully in his Clocktoys track, so we start things off with a track called “Christina Falls Apart.” This is a great example of the edgy modern rock sound that Pete creates, along with a moody atmosphere that’s very effective. He used quite a few apps to put this song together, including NanoStudio, Alchemy Synth Mobile, guitarism, ThumbJam, and iKaossilator. It’s a perfect example of what you can create when you blend iOS creativity, indie rock attitude, and some solid musicality.

Once you Pete’s insights into music, you’re definitely going to want to check out:
The Clocktoys SoundCloud Page
The Clocktoys FaceBook Page
The Clocktoys Twitter Page

Here’s some of the apps that Pete Plural mentions in the interview:

Audiobus

NanoStudio

DM1 – The Drum Machine

ThumbJam

Alchemy Synth Mobile Studio

Filtatron

GarageBand

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I hope that you enjoy this episode of the podcast . . . we’ll be back in a couple of weeks with more features to inspire your music making in episode #12! As always, the most important thing to me is that I create something useful that’s going to help the iOS music community. So, if you’ve got ideas, suggestions, or even compliments, send them my way! Thanks so much for listening, enjoy the show!
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