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

[Bagpipe Brony]

Hi ya'll I'm Robbie Dez, but I go by Bagpipe Brony on MLP related work and places.
I got into music composition my last year of High School and I sucked lol. But I've been doing it ever since and have of course, improved a great deal. I'm majoring in music at a community college hoping to get to USC to study film scoring to be a (you guessed it) Film composer ^^. I also love to draw and appreciate the talent others have for it. I go by Bagpipe Brony because I play bagpipes.
-I am a metal,rock,pop,folk,dubstep,techno,and orchestral fan and write in all these styles.
-I play bagpipes, tin whistle, accordion, piano, guitar, and I cossack dance as well.

Sequencer of choice (but not limited to): FL Studio (and I'm pursuing Cubase5)

Favorite Ponies: Rainbow Dash and Applejack.
not main 6: Vinyl Scratch and Derpy Hooves

[Lenich]

Hi everypony!
My name is Leonid and i'm from Russia. :)

I love writing covers of various music and almost do not know how to create something of my own.
Studied sound engineering by myself, I like it even more than the music itself.
I am drawnig a bit (but at a newbee level), and I am trying to reach as much creative fields as it is possible. :)
I work in Cubase5 (for Live music and orchestra) and FL5 (for electronic and sampled only music).

and I absolutely shitty writing in English. Google translate helps, but it is still difficult :)

[Dr_Dissonance]

I am drawing a bit (but at a newbee level)

At a newbee level? That picture you drew in 'The Fanart Thread' is amazing! Totally NOT newbee level!!!

Oh and wlecome everyone, we all hope you enjoy your time here!!!

[Mosche Swaggenberger]

HELLO EVERYHORSE. IAmNotACleverPony and PinkiePieSwear recommended this site to me. I have a song but I'm not gonna post it until the video is done. I think you guys are gonna like it though.

I actually had a passing acquaintance with Makkon on the Facepunch Studios forums a few years ago before he went away to do good deeds and stuff. He probably doesn't remember me though.

Anyway I like the pony show. I have watched all the episodes except for the last one. I'm afraid to watch it, because if I do, there won't be any more to watch.

[Artemus]

Whoops! I posted a discography and then trotted around like that jerk at the party who invited himself. You know, THAT guy who just waltzes in with his half-decent piano work and just makes himself comfortable.

What
A
Douche

Anyway, folks on the internet call me Artemus. It's what I answer to in certain RL settings as well. I'm a musician by trade, and a writer by boredom. Unfortunately, I'm largely unable to combine the two. Overkillius showed me this place after we went to Opera (because we're in the same performance.)

Now that I'm here, I'll just help myself to the mini-bar.

[Mosche Swaggenberger]

Is a pony opera on the horizon?

[Artemus]

Is a pony opera on the horizon?

....Carmen...in pony form.

~Ponies coming, ponies going, here and there, in the square! Strolling along and trotting by, strolling along and trotting by. Nopony knows! Nopony knows the reason why!~

You're onto something there.

[Mosche Swaggenberger]

Or a musical.

I LIKE TO BE IN EQUESTRIA
OK BY ME IN EQUESTRIA

[Artemus]

Or a musical.

I LIKE TO BE IN EQUESTRIA
OK BY ME IN EQUESTRIA

OH MY GOD. That's one of the performances we're doing! (only that song was taken out.)

Mind = Blown

[Mosche Swaggenberger]

THERE ARE PO-NIES IN EQUESTRIAAAAAA

[aap998]

Hello!

let me introduce myself

-I'm dutch, I live in Israel.
-I'm a lot into all sorts of digital and traditional arts.
-I love to lurk polycount. (my username is Lampekap)
-I failed miserably to make anything nice with cubase, but i'm not giving up! I'm glad I got referred to this site
-My favorite pony is fluttershy and RAINBOW DASH of course!

[Makkon]

Mosche Swaggenberger: Really? What name did you go by while you were there? (man that place got crazy...) How've you been?!?

And a pony musical...... mylittleremix project....this must happen :O

aap998: Welcome, man! My mom visited Israel on several occasions, I've always wanted to check out the mount of olives. And you're a fellow polycounter! XD

[Overkillius]

And a pony musical...... mylittleremix project....this must happen :O

I want to sing and write for it. probably not a good Idea to sing and write for it, that would make me come off as an idiot... who does that? *remembers Mozart pretty much wrote and preformed his own piano concertos* Too bad I suck in comparison.

[Artemus]

And a pony musical...... mylittleremix project....this must happen :O

I want to sing and write for it. probably not a good Idea to sing and write for it, that would make me come off as an idiot... who does that? *remembers Mozart pretty much wrote and preformed his own piano concertos* Too bad I suck in comparison.

I dunno man, West Side Ponies sounds pretty swingin'. Think about it:

We're Colts! The greatest!! When you're a colt you're the top hat in town, you're the gold metal filly that holds up a crown!

Or

Say it loud and there's music playing, say it soft and it's like praying. Rarity, I'll never stop saying Rarity....

Or as was pointed out earlier.

I want to be in Equestria....

[Overkillius]

We're Colts! The greatest!! When you're a colt you're the top hat cat in town, you're the gold metal filly that holds up a crown!

don't tell me you sang the wrong words in the performance :[

[PinkieGuy]

Hi guys! I'm Rob, although I mostly go by NerdOfTheYear externally, and PinkieGuy on here.

Quick Facts:
- I'm Australian
- Studying Law/Commerce at Uni (3/5 years done)
- I'm a leo, and I love long walks on the beach... couldn't resist.

Quick-And-Relevant Facts:
- I'm a multi-instrumentalist: Guitar, saxophone, clarinet, piano, I sing and I scream/growl for my metal music.
- I play guitar in a sydney based Prog Metal band called Ex Curia and also play and sing in a local metalcore band called Before Yoko Arrives.
- I write/record alot of rock/metal guitar based work, which is splattered all over the internet.
- I also write and remix techno, dubstep and hardstyle music, although i'm a little out of practice. MLP:FiM got me back into writing electronic music again.
- Favourite ponies: Pinkie Pie because she reminds me of childhood and Rarity because I can relate to her perfectionism.

[RobotPony]

I play guitar in a sydney based Prog Metal band called Ex Curia

I am intrigued. Do you guys have a website?

[PinkieGuy]

We have a Myspace and a few other similar social media sites, but we've stripped most of the music from them. We're currently redoing recordings of everything we have as our previous stuff was a mix of at least 6 different recording interfaces, so no continuity.

Here is an example though:

http://soundcloud.com/jamesdevlin/satur ... -piano-mix

Favourite part is probably 13:10 until the end.

[RobotPony]

So, I listened to it! It was pretty good. I had a hard time understanding the vocals a lot, so maybe you should turn them up or in some way make them more distinct from the rest of it. I liked the piano, it was a nice contrast from the guitar. That's something else I should note: I am not a big metal fan, one reason being I find the guitars are over-distorted. That wasn't a problem here, so good job on that.

The end was pretty awesome. It was probably my favorite part as well.

[PinkieGuy]

We do that ending live, it's awesome fun, quick relaxing after playing a full metal set. It helps that we had 7 band members

[Kumquaticus]

Ponies plus awesome music? CAN. NOT. RESIST.

So hey, I'm Kumquat. I've been into ponies for quite a while, and music has been my life source for even longer. For pony stuff, I usually just lurk around ponychan as Kumquat (though on most other places I'm Kumquaticus), but I'd really, really love to start getting into the whole musical aspect.

Speaking of music, I am a fairly new, inexperienced and all that crap producer of electronica of varying genres. Most of my work that I actually like is as of yet unrevealed for an album that'll drop sometime in the distant future, but my crappy free stuff is located at http://soundcloud.com/greenquat-studios. I mainly use Propellerhead Reason to make it happen, and I doubt that that'll change anytime soon.

I'm also into art and blah blah blah TL;DR, I'm a lazy, untalented blob that nobody should care about, but I love life and try to be friendly.

Oh wait, I almost forgot, favorite pony is Pinkie Pie.

[FoozogzPepperBrony]

Almost forgot about this place.

Hello all, I'm PepperBrony. My goal is to make every track I write to be ear candy for the electronica fandom. I'm a cheapo using a free DAW called LMMS and a free audio editor called audacity and free VSTs, some of which I have yet to learn. I went to the LMMS forum before and was disappoint at the quality of most of the tracks there, (ick, flat midi-sounding trance) so I left.

I vowed to break the boundaries of this DAW with my compositions. It holds great potential. My wishlist for a new DAW would be Reaper, though. LMMS is rather difficult for dubstep/portamento control.

I want to look into mastering my tracks, giving them a rich, full 3d sound like I hear DJs integrating into their mixes.

I used to compose game music for my own games. Now that I got sucked in to this mlp thing, my muse is alive and vivid with pony.

Oh yeah um, I'm 18, I live in California, and I'm half white/chinese. Favorite ponies: Pinkie Pie/Fluttershy

[Dr_Dissonance]

I'm a cheapo using a free DAW called LMMS and a free audio editor called audacity...

My wishlist for a new DAW would be Reaper, though. LMMS is rather difficult for dubstep/portamento control.

Audacity is such a useful editor, especially when it's free!
Also, I have Reaper, rarely use it...and I don't remember where I got it...
I'm pretty sure my composition lecturer gave it to me...
But anyway, it is pretty good from the times that I have used it!


And welcome everyone!!!!

[Sugarholik]

Hello there everypony!
So i'm still quite newbie to making music and nothing's yet ready... (soon will be)
I have played keys for 4-5 years by now and know all sorts of useful basic stuff when it comes to digital signal processing.
At the moment i don't use my computer to make sounds very much, i mostly record everything from my Kurzweil pc3x.
I like all sorts of music but mainly classical, progressive and electronic.
And favorite pony... Check the avatar...

[Circuitfry]

LMMS

Well well well! Seems that we have something in common!

OKAY HERE I GO

- The name is just me poking fun at myself. A lot of people misspell my name, so just call me C if it's too hard.
- I'm studying Computer Engineering.
- I'm 19 at the time of this post.
- We're actually a duo of musicians, Circuitfry and BMDoubbleBass (we only collaborated for one song).
- I also use LMMS, on Linux.
- I have a USB guitar, but not right now.
- Twilight is the best pony.

INSPIRATIONS:

I also love DJ Shadow and Fat Boy Slim. I have a shit ton of Indie rock inspirations as well; Dr. Dog, The Ms, Cold War Kids, Beirut, The Trucks, I could name a lot more. I love a lot of the 60s/70s music like Love and Steve Miller Band (as much as I love "The Joker," the best hit imo is "Space Cowboy," and there's a damn difference!) Electronic composers that I love include Boys Noize, Daft Punk, Bag Raiders, etc. Interrupt Vector is honestly my favorite speedcore musician, he just knows how to make a fast riff. I don't think I have a particular favorite Hardstyle artist besides Dark Oscillators. Classical inspirations? Chopin and Vivaldi for compositions, classical guitar being Pierre Laniau. Jazz? Jason Smith (Gnu York) and Scott Wilkie.