How did you get into making music?

[Berri]

My dad left logic open, I was bored so smacked my head agisant his midi keyboard, when I did this enough I released it as a song. Ands that still how im making music to this day. (But seriously I started my first song by hitting my head of the keyboard and recording it, then I turned that into a song

[senntenial]

My friend Chris (Neonstorm) showed me FL when I was 11, and I had the demo for several years. I had to make so many things in just one session, haha.

[Injustrial]

This sentence:

How hard can it be?

And boy, did I discover just that...

[Mesogears]

To make a long story short, I got into music production through this community. Before getting into the MLP fandom, I had never been interested in making electronic music, but after hearing some of our artists, I grew more interested in it.

I remember picking FL Studio because Glaze uses it.

[JSynth]

In sixth grade, I started playing the drums. (I was really bad). In seventh grade, I started playing around with Sibelius and composing my own stuff. When I was in tenth grade, I took a music theory class and found myself getting serious about music. I started learning about music production and electronic music when I joined the brony fandom. Now I spend my time lurking around a website called My Little Remix (some of you may have heard of it) and posting on random threads.

[cplbradley]

Started playing guitar when I was about 6, wanted to write my own tunes. Used a program called Cakewalk Pro Audio on a Windows 95 computer, all it did was program midi files. My uncle was a raver back in the days of DJ Jean and Fatboy Slim, and he showed me dance music when I was young. I was hooked, but I still wanted to try making rock music. When I was 12, by dad bought me Pro Tools 7 and an Mbox. Then, my older brother showed me FL Studio 6. 6 years later, here we are.

Started by making trance and hands-up, then started making house, and eventually started making EDM.

[simonli2575]

This sentence:

How hard can it be?

And boy, did I discover just that...

Tell me about it.
But at least you didn't give up.

[Feedback]

Another forum I was on used to always have a bunch of "Record yourself covering X song and we'll vote on who does the best" contests for fun, and I would join into those when I was 14-15. Then one day when I was 15, I watched this video, particularly the part from 7:28 onward, and decided that I'm smart enough to figure recording out, and I'm a good enough musician to make music. Turns out I wasn't entirely right, because after I bought a $30 copy of Sony Acid, I spent about 45 minutes confused about why I wasn't recording when I didn't prime the track.

Long story short, a year later once I got used to the basics, that same aforementioned forum had a "Record an album in a month!" challenge where everyone who entered was expected to make an album that was at least 30 minutes, and with the aid of a ton of loops, I made one. Had a blast doing it, made some more, and here I am today, studying sound design in college along with other fields easier to make a living in.

[DJ-G6PON3]

I pretty much have listened to music all my life. I don't remember a time in my life where I wasn't surrounded by music. I believe around uh....2007 I felt the need to do something, but it wasn't until 2012 I became semi-curious of the Brony community. I watched the show and then I thought, "I wonder if anybody made music for this." I got my first dose of Brony music thanks to TheLivingTombstone and Glaze. I got really into music around 2013. Since then, I been trying to experiment with genres of music, ranging from Metal to EDM. That's my story of how I got into music.

[Ischi Vezon]

I got into dubstep, with the point of being rebellious and "Hardcore" and to try to impress my dad by listening to the most "Hardcore" music around.

After awhile, I learned my dad hated it (I was 12 okay don't expect me to make good judgement), and I start legitimately liking it. The first dubstep song I heard was Alex.S's remix of 'Nyan Cat'. I then heard Korn's collaboration with Skrillex (Before EDM I was a metal fan) and I got hooked onto that.

I had no idea how the music was made, so soon enough I found out. On a computer. (Duh)

I then wanted to try making it, and found this app for my phone called (iMaschine). For it's price, it was actually pretty in depth, you actually formed the drum patterns and midi patters, unlike other cheap apps at the time.

I spent 2 years producing music on my phone because I didn't have enough money for real software, I actually good pretty good at "Phone production". I then saved up for FL Studio and finally got it about 3 months ago.

So, I pretty much got into producing on accident, I had no knowledge at the time DJing was a thing it could be a career when I got that app.

[Toothpaste]

I got into dubstep, with the point of being rebellious and "Hardcore" and to try to impress my dad by listening to the most "Hardcore" music around.

After awhile, I learned my dad hated it (I was 12 okay don't expect me to make good judgement), and I start legitimately liking it. The first dubstep song I heard was Alex.S's remix of 'Nyan Cat'. I then heard Korn's collaboration with Skrillex (Before EDM I was a metal fan) and I got hooked onto that.

I had no idea how the music was made, so soon enough I found out. On a computer. (Duh)

I then wanted to try making it, and found this app for my phone called (iMaschine). For it's price, it was actually pretty in depth, you actually formed the drum patterns and midi patters, unlike other cheap apps at the time.

I spent 2 years producing music on my phone because I didn't have enough money for real software, I actually good pretty good at "Phone production". I then saved up for FL Studio and finally got it about 3 months ago.

So, I pretty much got into producing on accident, I had no knowledge at the time DJing was a thing it could be a career when I got that app.

You upgraded from mobile to FL on a computer? You are now officially my role model XD
I'm still using my iPad and FL Studio Mobile for making music, but I hope to get a computer at some point in my life.
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I was inspired to make music ever since Almost Anyone released his album "Future Suns". I later became a brony and was inspired by pretty much all the musicians in the fandom XD

[Artless]

About halfway through summer break of 2013, one of my friends got me into mlp, and I went insane. I found my way into the music part of the fandom, and began obsessing over artists such as Silva Hound, Tombstone, and Assertive Fluttershy. Eventually, I got with two of my friends and we jokingly said we should "make a sick poni wubz".

One of my friends quickly dropped out while the remaining two of us researched DAW's (and by that I mean we checked the "About" section of people's youtube pages and found out what they were using). We eventually settled on FL studio and then I got it for christmas and started messing with it. My friend never got it because his parents are very controlling of his online adventures. We never really made a "sick wubz m8", but I actually met up with him yesterday and we worked on a track that's going into a collab album on mlr, and he's still working on getting FL.

So tl;dr, I was brought into the fandom and went insane over pony musicians, and tried my hand at producing. Here I am today, regretting nothing.

[FritzyBeat]

I have been interested in music ever since I was really little, Relient K, Switchfoot, Newsboys, etc.... only back then it was most used as inspiration for my story ideas, and eventually art and comics.

It wasn't until I discovered Adam Young and Owl City and the release of his album "Ocean Eyes" (yes, it was Fireflies that alerted me to his music X3) that i decided I really wanted to make my own music and sing.
I sang a lot of vocal covers over the next year or two, and attempted to write my own songs, though I was never able to finish anything (only ever getting done about half of what is now "Fort Hope" and a little bit of "Oxygen").

Then, suddenly in October of last year, I discovered ponies and shortly thereafter, the music in the fandom. I was super inspired by all the creativity people had in creating music about these colourful horses, that it gave me the drive to actually finish an original song. I wasn't sure what I was planning on doing after that though, but I heard not long after that my first song had been posted to the spotlight at EQD, and things just sorta progressed from there X3

Probably my fondest memory from those events was when my friend Meredith messaged me on skype shortly after the release of Oxygen:

"Dude! You're song is spotlighted on EQD! Dude dude dude!!!"
"Oh, cool.... whats EQD?"
"You don't know? Its like the biggest brony website ever, pretty much the hub for the whole fandom! And you're on it!"
"oh, thats nice"

I was sooooooo new X3 *shot*

[caprix snare]

my uncle gave a copy of reason 3 like 8 years ago and didn't touch it until my freshman year of high school. I have been disgracing music for 6 years now.

[AJHunter]

There was an episode of Radio Lab a few years back, and it got me into the idea of noise music, so I made some. It actually came out pretty well (I found the EP and I put it up here), then didn't really touch music in any form until the first Pinkamena Party. That's when I started trying to learn electronic music and eventually found the perfect DAW for my style of thinking. Been doing music ever since :>

[FLAOFEI]

Sine I probably lied the last time I posded here... heres another questionable truth.

I was a spoiled kid with an obsession with sounds.

[MrBronyPlan]

My friend down the Atlantic ocean showed me Logic some time ago. I watched him use it for a while. I didn't have a Mac. I still don't. So then I looked at FL Studio because that was the second thing I found.