Sonic_Warrior submitted:



I don’t really have anything on me right now to give as evidence for this, but I’m convinced that SGAP uses FLStudio based on samples he provided in the piece by piece version of A Beautiful Heart.

First I tried laying the pieces out that he provided and tried to recreate A Beautiful Heart using the samples. It fit perfectly with FLStudio’s default tempo, 130 BPM. That was my first clue.

Next I picked out one of the string parts, “strings 1 #2” as it is labelled. I tried the native string soundfont and it almost fit but didn’t quite.

So I decided to look around the plugins. First I tried Sakura, a string focused plugin. This yielded no results. I then tried my demo version of Morphine that came with Producer edition. Morphine is an additive synthesizer with various presets. I clicked through the string section and found at the very bottom, a preset called “STR Violin, NUC.” I tested it and it sounded a bit promising. I compared the two sounds and tried to match tune by tuning the SGAP strings down just a tad since they were a bit sharp. They sounded nearly identical. Even the echo was the same.

So, we know that SGAP used FLStudio. Kreuhn Pony also uses FLStudio and they are good friends, so makes sense really. That’s also good for people like me who are trying to study his style.

Although I have a theory on this. SGAP as we all know is very humble and doesn’t care if he is credited or not. Perhaps he even insists on not being credited for his work. I think I know why.

Headcanon time. I don’t know if this is true or not,

SGAP might have been in college around the time he did all this, as we see in the one and only con interview he was in he was wearing a university shirt of which I can’t recall. Maybe his budget didn’t have room for expensive music endeavours. No room to buy FLStudio plugins or maybe even FL itself. With a passion for music, he decides to download a cracked version of FLStudio and various plugins like Morphine. He feels that he’s cheated in this way, and paired with his love of MLP he decides to not seek profit for his work, and feeling guilty of “stealing” FLStudio, he decides to not even seek credit because he doesn’t feel that it is truly his. He might have let this get to him later when he took all his content down and explained that he wasn’t proud of his work.

To be honest, I feel like he was cheated by these big companies who charge this much for software like this. But that’s just a theory anyway. I have no idea what his intentions are and I shouldn’t speak for him.

