Posted by Sarah on Feb 6, 2009 in
Fine Articles Here in Dermington, Montana, we have derived an full community that abides in the newly designed tumbleweed home designs. Now these new homes are a huge change from what we as Americans have become accustomed to. Instead of 3 and 4,000 square foot homes, what we have here is closer to 3, or 400 square foot.
Now, I know what your considering, how in the world do you live in that? Well, the answer is cheap loft beds, upright showers, microwave ovens, tiny stoves, micro refrigerators, micro, small, and more micro. We have discovered that in these tight times, and in comparison to other global standards, these tinier options are a authentic solution. The loft beds, create a giant amount of area.
Some of these models come with the popular Murphy bed selections, but the Morphy’s don’t double as workable spaces, in most cases. I couldn’t sell these things, unless I had tried them myself, so for one years, I lived in the 250sq foot model. Now, granted, I’m a single guy, and I have been a bachelor for the past ten years, but it really wasn’t that uncomfortable at all. I had this really nice metal loft bed, and just about every feature available, and I was fine.
My only problem, was the wind. When the winds sped up to about 50, or 60 miles an hour, or better, it was a bit uncomfortable, but apart from that, I rather enjoyed it! Now when you start thinking about a family, you can consider the bigger models, and also consider joining them together, somewhat like Legos.
Posted by Sarah on Feb 6, 2009 in
Fine Articles You can now find a lot of great techno songs at JonLeger.com. In case you’re interested in creating music yourself, here’s how he does it:
FL Studio
His primary tool for creating electronic music is FL Studio. FL Studio has it all: a mixer, a sequencer, loads of special effects and filters. Truly fantastic. He strongly suggests you purchase a copy! It takes a while to get used to using it, but it really makes music-making a digital breeze.
MAGIX Music Editor 2.0
When Jon needs to modify, cut and paste the sounds he uses in his songs, he uses MAGIX. It was cheap — he got it at Best Buy for $30. It’s very handy for the wave-editing that FL Studio can’t do. He looked at their site (magix.com), but I couldn’t find it. Maybe they don’t sell it anymore?
Bink Video’s RAD Video Tools
He’s started making songs based on movies and TV shows that he likes, and sometimes it’s useful to extract sounds from the movie trailers and movie clips that are available online. To accomplish this he uses the RAD Video Tools from Bink Video. They’re donationware, so be sure to give them a few bucks if you find their stuff useful (he did).
Loops and Samples
Jon has purchased thousands of loops, samples and instruments for use in FL Studio. Two of the places he’s gotten the sounds from are PlatinumLoops.com and PeaceLoveProductions.com. Both have a large selection at reasonable prices.
Hardware
He uses an audio-technica studio microphone for vocals (AT3035), and an Edirol UA-25 USB Audio Capture device to record from the microphone. He loves the Edirol because it’s very small (perfect for my desk) and supports two studio microphones and has a digital output for headphones.
If you’re interested in creating your own music, he wants to tell you this: it’s a lot easier (and cheaper) than you might think. You don’t need a studio (even for vocals). He records vocals in his office at home. All of the software and equipment costs came to around $1,250 (including the loops). The equipment all fits on my desk, and the software runs on my home PC. FL Studio needs a good bit of memory, so Jon suggests you don’t have less than 1GB of RAM (that’s how much he has and it works fine).