stormwolfpony:

h8seed:

lavenderharmony:

Fuck anonymous pony confessions; the ones I submit never get fucking posted anyway and I need to vent.

I’m honestly sick of bronies pirating music software. It’s really grating on me, and I feel like I’m in the complete minority of having 100% purchased plugins and software. I don’t care if you…

Story time with H8_Seed! Not meant to offend anybody, but if it does, there’s not much I can do about it.

When I was in grade school and everybody was picking up instruments to play for band and orchestra, I wanted more than anything to play the viola. Unfortunately, as these things tend to happen, my mom did not have enough money to purchase one, and I got shafted and sent to piano class with a teacher that made me grow to hate music.

It’s probably the single biggest regret of my life that I never became a viola player, but I just couldn’t afford it.

Back when I was in college, I volunteered at a place called the Joy of Music school, a charity foundation where kids didn’t have to worry about how expensive their instrument was. With the exclusion of harps, pianos, and certain percussion instruments, every child was given the instrument of their choice free of charge.

While it would be ideal if everybody could purchase the software, we often can’t, and my philosophy is that the cost of the instrument should never be a prohibitor for getting someone involved with music. Ever. Period.

Okay yeah this one

Nailed it, h8.

Reblogged for serious truth.

lavenderharmony:

Fuck anonymous pony confessions; the ones I submit never get fucking posted anyway and I need to vent.

I’m honestly sick of bronies pirating music software. It’s really grating on me, and I feel like I’m in the complete minority of having 100% purchased plugins and software. I don’t care if you…

While I’m sorry you feel this frustrated about it (it really is as bad as you say — I’m not denying that torrents run amok in the brony music community), I have to disagree with you. As a college student (in a completely non-music-related field) who makes music purely because it’s fun, there is absolutely no justifiable reason for me to spend a grand on music software just to do what I want to do. And I’m not talking about substituting simple, free plugins with fancy ones — the DAW alone will run you half a grand, depending on the program, and if you want to make orchestral music, good luck making anything not sound like shit! Sibelius alone is $400 with absolutely no free alternatives. (Don’t even get me started on Finale Notepad.)

The grand majority of brony musicians are amateurs who have absolutely no reason to splurge $500 on a hobby that might end up being a passing fancy. Eventually, when I get a real source of income, I’ll buy the stuff I stole. But until then, I’ll make the best of what I have.

Those people that think they’re better than you because they pirated their shit and you didn’t, though? Yeah, they’ll get no love from me either.