--Introduction Thread-- Newbies Please Use This Thread First

[guitarfan01]

I'm guitarfan01, or The One Galen, or just Galen, and I make music about ponies.

Or at least I'm starting to.

I've been playing guitar for 10 years, piano/keys for about five years longer than that, and written songs for the same time. I've written good songs for about four years (at a very slow rate), and just started performing them last year. I use a looping pedal for live shows, inspired by Phil Keaggy, who is the biggest influence on my playing style, although all sorts of different ideas shoot off in my head at any given time.

I have about five different pony songs that I'm writing right now. The only song I have up on my youtube is a guitar/saxophone duet I wrote as my final project for my college music composition class two years ago (holy crap it's been that long!). A couple of my friends performed it at about 2/3 the tempo indicated with limited rehearsal, so it's kind of meh.

I'm also working on a fanfic, slowly but surely. Right now, it needs a lot of drafting and even more revision.

As for what I want to do with my music/art/writings: I want to inspire people, I want to express myself, I want to take part in the incredible surge of creativity MLP has inspired in the fandom. I want to write things that people will hear and like, but will also challenge and inspire.

I'm not sure what I want, really, but I want to write good music and perform it, and writing about things I love has been something I've done for a long time, so this fits.

[Torrenz]

Helloooo.

I got FL Studio 8 a few days ago with no previous musical experience, so I'm rather new to the scene. I've spent many, many hours the last two days tinkering around with the program, enjoying myself greatly, and I'd love to make this a permanent hobby of mine. Not much more to say at the moment, I do hope I stay as motivated as I am right now.
I was redirected here from ponychan, and this looks like an excellent place to share my work and get the feedback I crave so much. I've made a little thread with my first track over here.

This ought to be fun! See you around.

[Super_Bass]

Hey there, everyone!

I go by Super Bass, and I'm yet another aspiring Brony Rapper.~

Surprisingly enough, I've only just recently been interested in the music scene.
A friend of mine named Copycat introduced me to the community through a Skype chatroom, where I ended up eventually meeting Yelling at Cats, AgileDash, and Omnipony, alongside many other talented people.

After lots of talking and goofing around, I took a closer meaning to what this community was about. I started learning from these people, FL Studio and how it works, I'm learning from AgileDash. Yelling at Cats has given me numerous lessons on rapping and a few pointers here and there as well. I haven't released much lately, (I have a Collaboration in the works at the moment), but I'm definitely prepared to put a lot of hard work into this. As such, I've also sunk quite a bit of money into it... I'm not really hoping to become famous or anything, and I don't expect to, but what I really want is for people to see my name and know that I can make people smile from what I do!

[Piranhaplant]

Hi everyone, I'm Piranhaplant!

I've been playing piano for about 10 years and just recently got into creating electronic music. I have one remix currently released that you can check out at my YouTube channel. Slowly I've been working on another remix, but it's been hard to find time to work on it.

You guys seem like a really nice community and I hope to enjoy my time here.

[HatBrony]

Welp. Hi, everypony! I'm HatBrony, one of the many teenage Australian musicians. There is actually a lot of those.
Uhh, I recently got into creating pony music and I play guitar. I wish I knew how to record it though.
So, yeah! You'll see me around, lurking the music forums.

[CaptainFluffatun]

Do you have recording gear? You remind me of me because I didn't know how to record until recently.

[Calamus_Dash]

I was gone for a weekend and came back to find a million new guys. Welcome everyone!

A friend of mine named Copycat

Copycat

Copycat

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[TheSunAndTheRainfall]

Whoa, so many new people! Welcome, y'all!

[HatBrony]

Do you have recording gear? You remind me of me because I didn't know how to record until recently.

Err... Does a laptop with Audacity count?

[CaptainFluffatun]

I guess, but I was thinking more in the way of studio microphones. I could give you recording tips both on the setup (so you know what to buy) and the actual process. I just recently got to an at least passable level on my recording.

[HatBrony]

I guess, but I was thinking more in the way of studio microphones. I could give you recording tips both on the setup (so you know what to buy) and the actual process. I just recently got to an at least passable level on my recording.

In that case, no. My whole producing setup is an HP laptop, Sennheiser HD380 Pros and multiple qwerty keyboards. I use the laptop for everything, mind you.

[yujacha]

howdy folks! I'm yujacha.

-i like listing things
-i tend to ramble
-I'm reeeeallly new to making music... i messed around with flstudio 8 a long time ago, but i've forgotten much of it. I'm using openmpt. i record audio with a logitech usb microphone.
-apple bloom is best pony

[Super_Bass]

I was gone for a weekend and came back to find a million new guys. Welcome everyone!

A friend of mine named Copycat

Copycat

Copycat

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

:3

[Arkane]

Heya! The name's Arkane and I'm new to this place. [HuRRr]

Been a brony since the first season and with all the remixes I'm seeing all around the internets, I decided to join in with the flow!

I mostly do symphonic metal/rock. You know, those kinds of songs with guitars and whatnot accompanied by some sort of orchestra and the like. You can throw in a choir there if you want.

I'm also an amateur voice actor [not that it matters here anyway >_>]. So if you need some sort of dramatized speech in the middle of your song, then I'd be willing to help.

Oh yeah! I cant seem to find the Introduction area in this here forums so I made one here.

If you wanna listen to some songs I did, here's a couple of links:

[NON-BRONY] Lily - Lily Lily Burning Night Symphonic Metal Cover ft. MewMewRith
[BRONY] Avast Fluttershy's Ass Symphonic Metal/Rock Remix
[BRONY] [First Brony Song I made] Derpy's Lament

So yeah! Hope my stay here will be awesome!

[CaptainFluffatun]

I mostly do symphonic metal/rock.

I think we're going to be good friends, you and I.

If you wanna listen to some songs I did, here's a couple of links:

[NON-BRONY] Lily - Lily Lily Burning Night Symphonic Metal Cover ft. MewMewRith
[BRONY] Avast Fluttershy's Ass Symphonic Metal/Rock Remix
[BRONY] [First Brony Song I made] Derpy's Lament

So yeah! Hope my stay here will be awesome!

These links are not links. If you fix this, I'll listen :3

[Arkane]

I mostly do symphonic metal/rock.

I think we're going to be good friends, you and I.

If you wanna listen to some songs I did, here's a couple of links:

[NON-BRONY] Lily - Lily Lily Burning Night Symphonic Metal Cover ft. MewMewRith
[BRONY] Avast Fluttershy's Ass Symphonic Metal/Rock Remix
[BRONY] [First Brony Song I made] Derpy's Lament

So yeah! Hope my stay here will be awesome!

These links are not links. If you fix this, I'll listen :3

Fixed! also, you might wanna check this out: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1767

[Gnarrkhaz]

Hi, my name's David. 22 years old. From Germany.

I started to play electric guitar 6 years ago or so but i never really managed to write my own music until recently when the brony community inspired me with how good some of the fan music is (the show is awesome too ). Some of it even introduced me to new genres of music. Never thought i'd love electro in certain cases.

[Doofcake]

Hello everyone!
My name is Doofcake. Born and living in Estonia (Estonian Independence Day today by the way! Yay Estonia!)
I'm currently a 16 year old student, working as a 3D animator for four Source engine mods: Guard Duty (Blue Shift: Source), Operation Black Mesa (Opposing Force: Source), Deathmatch Classic: Source and Operation Lambda.
I began learning to make digital music 2 weeks ago after having listened to the brilliant music this fandom makes for a long time. I've previously had 7 years of piano lessons at a well known music academy here, still suck at it though, hehe. I'm also in a choir which has been awarded the Choir of the Year in Estonia a few times, including last year. Singing first tenor, although I was said to be able to sing in any voice group, but there are very few tenors, which is why I was assigned there.

About me and ponies:
I already had the entire MLP music archive back somewhere in the middle of 2011, but didn't get around to watching an episode until January 2012, once I had watched the first two episodes I proceeded to watch 5-6 episodes a day until I got to the latest. Love the show!
My favourite pony is Pinkie Pie, because she's crazy, hyperactive and completely random, just like me. Second favourite is Fluttershy, since I'm often like her instead, like when I'm around strangers or meeting new people. I, instead of talking to others, just meep. Third favourite is Rainbow Dash, because... Wait no, I don't have to explain why I like her, you know well enough why everyone likes her. The rest come afterwards. To be honest, I like everypony a lot.

Other stuff:
DAW: FL Studio
Favourite VST: Nexus, even though I used it for the first time today, I instantly fell in love with it.
Favourite brony artists: The Living Tombstone and WoodenToaster. They are amazing.

That's all I can think of right now.

[Gnarrkhaz]

Do you have recording gear? You remind me of me because I didn't know how to record until recently.

Err... Does a laptop with Audacity count?

Can i join the club? Although in my case it's a desktop pc, not a laptop.

[CaptainFluffatun]

Can i join the club? Although in my case it's a desktop pc, not a laptop.

The club unfortunately has a large amount of members as I understand it.

[HoovesTunes]

Hello everypony.
I'm a 18 year old nothinger from Norway who recently became interested in music.
I've previously listened to it (which probably comes as a great surprise) ,and I've also played the piano on and off for some while ,but after an incident at the age of 14 whereas my piano-teacher shouted at me for not being able to remember to play the C# chord instead of the C chord (I was a special child, bless my sweet ignorance), my interest and motivation for music became somewhat low.
I regained this interest somewhere about a year ago when I discovered what funny noises you could make with a usb2midi adaptor from china (which actually melted at some point), Fl studio and a keyboard from the eighties. I mostly just made horrid noises to ruin my roommates sleep, which was not very melodic.
However about a month ago or so I met a person who was also interested in music and the rest is hist- present.

Oh, and at some point I saw a lot of ponies on the internet and decided to watch that show. I liked it.

Other stuff:
DAW: Reason 5, with FL studio on the side for stuff such as voicefuckery and VSTs
Hardware: Axiom pro 49

[Voracious]

Hello everyone!
I'm a 13 year old amateur producer from California. My music will make you hate me.
I've been making digital music for a while now, though I've only released one official track, because, quite simply, uploading any of my other stuff would simply embarrass me. x]

Fluttershy is my best pony.

Stuffs:
DAW: FL Studio 10 (total lagfest for my computer ._.)
Favorite VST: NI Massive. Hell yes.
Hardware: I don't know. D:
... doesn't matter for me though. :3

- Voracious
http://youtube.com/user/VoraciousMusic

[TheSunAndTheRainfall]

Welcome, you guys! (Oh my god, I feel so lame posting all these blanket statements, but I do read all your posts you guys! Promise!)

[spacebaseloop]

Hello everybody! My name is DJ Spacebaseloop. I make electronica pony music on youtube. Here's a link to my channel where all my music is posted: http://www.youtube.com/user/spacebaseloop . Enjoy!

Music making software: Fl Studio 10
Plugins: Native Instruments Massive, Absynth 5

[Hazmatt]

Hello! My name is Matt, and I currently have no music to share except for my cover of "Becoming Popular". I'm working on a few song ideas though, and I intend to do some kind of electronic, possibly dubstep, music in the near future. If you'd like to hear the one thing I actually have done, please click the link below. If not, whatever, I'm just happy to be here.

http://soundcloud.com/reddurcs/becoming-popular-cover