Ask Lyra

Sep 28

diamondmint asked: Dear Lyra, I'm stuck in the hospital, and unless I get someone to help me back home, they wont let me go. I have tried everypony else, but none of them are answering. I hate to ask, but can you help me?

Can you give me a few hours? I’m about to head into a meeting with Sweetie Belle. It’s kinda important.

I’ll come over and soon as I can.

Anonymous asked: Have you ever had to back 'em up with a fist metal crackle?

Yes, I know what you’re talking about. But you get this instead.

My apologies if the lyrics are explicit. To be honest, I can’t understand a darn thing they’re saying!

This is why I don’t like death metal. If it were just an instrumental, it’d be pretty flippin’ sick!

Anonymous asked: Hey Lyra. Just want to say that in your sidebar, you incorrectly listed Marble Zone as Marble Garden. Marble Garden is the one in Sonic 3 with all those fake spikes.

Oops! I’ll fix that right away!

Thanks!

askraincloud-deactivated2012012 asked: W-Wow those sound very nice lyra~! i w-wish i could play a lyre~

Drums and Tuba are excellent insturments too!

Speaking of drums… I was messing around with some audio files and found a way to dramatically lower the reverberation on the drums in Decisive Battle and Pokey Means Business, while also normalizing the resulting shift in volume. What comes out are considerably less industrial sounding drums (Not that industrial is bad, it was just an experiment).

I’ll upload the two as one file tonight, see what everypony thinks.

askraincloud-deactivated2012012 asked: I know~ I'm more of a singer~ you like to play the music~

I sure do!

These two are my favorite I’ve ever played!

This one is awesome too! Thanks to Applebloom for requesting it!

And… Plug to the newest one

theblackstrawberry asked: I'm feeling much better today, thank you for bringing me that food, I think I would have just gotten sicker and the worst might have happened. I kept the band aid on my head though. I'm asking Trixie to turn me into a pony... I want to be a pony again...

Cool!

What kind of pony? I mean, do you get to choose?

Anonymous asked: Your thoughts on FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS?

Sounds like an expansion to an MMO. You know, one of those crappy foreign ones that get developed and spat out in a year.

Anonymous asked: How can I become more like Derpy?

Be substantially more awesome than you are currently.

Then become a package deliverer!

Anonymous asked: What's a brony?

A form of identification for fans of our dimension.

I’m a little more savvy than some.

letterstoapplebloom-blog-blog asked: Miss Lyra, ah love yew fer playin' that.

Thanks! I was really disappointed that I had to cut part of it, but now I feel better!

Also, in case anypony missed it, I did Marble Garden a few nights ago, too. Evidently I forgot to hit save after trying to add it to my sidebar.

They’re both there now!

askraincloud submitted:

I like those to~ i try to sing song i write n my own~ i love most of them~

Of course, not all music is meant to have lyrics.

But I’m sure that can be a fun hobby!

askraincloud-deactivated2012012 asked: O-Oh~ i-im sorry~ i-i didnt know~ *blushes* what stuff do you usally try to sing?~

Mostly this.

Most of the jazz I listen to doesn’t have vocals, though.

askraincloud-deactivated2012012 asked: *giggles* well~~ when i sing~ i think of beautiful things like i mentioned~ you try~

Just because I can’t sing doesn’t mean I don’t try. In the shower, or  while listening to some music.

I can’t sing tends to mean I can’t sing well.

askraincloud-deactivated2012012 asked: Ok~ d-do you sing to?~

Crunch!

Oops! Wrong one!

Ka-Crunch!