My name is Derek Penagos. Well I actually started my "musical career" a couple years ago when I was in high school and was a real loser lol. I guess I had a crush on this girl and I was denied, of course. So after that, the only way I dealt with it was to write what I felt in lyrical form. I made a website for the lyrics I wrote and I didn't really expect anyone to see it, but I guess they did. After that, when I asked my girlfriend now out I kinda put all that off for a while because I didn't really have any inspiration to write since I wrote some depressing and mean stuff lol.

One christmas I got a Casio keyboard and I started messing around with the piano and string sounds on it. I never took classes for piano playing, so to this day I've literally taught myself everything so far. I soon began to realize that since I was writing all of my samples in a notebook, it would be smarter to get a program that would link my keyboard to my computer (duh!), so that's what I did. With that program it was still baby steps and the quality was not at all where I wanted to be with my music.

Eventually I heard of a program called Fruity Loops (weird name I know, but this thing pwns!). It is pretty idiot-proof because it lets you record something and move it around whereever you want in the context of the song, so if the timing is off you can fix it. Anyways, that's what I've been using ever since. The cool thing is that you can add a lot of programs to it which is amazing because it comes with a limited amount of sounds and presets which got old to me. The first batch of "songs" I made were only using one sound from the Sytrus tool on it, and they were cool soundscapes, but nothing that I was happy with.

The add-ons I have for my Fruity Loops program are: Magnus Choir, Realistic Virtual Piano, Syntheway Strings, Cameleon 5000, CamelSpace, and CamelPhat.


I just ask anyone who listens to my music and/or downloads it and likes it to leave a comment on my page. Thanks.