Kamis, 19 Agustus 2010

MUSIC SOFTWARE

1. Digital Music Mentor (DMM)
Bagi para musisi, mencari chord (kunci) gitar sebuah lagu sangatlah mudah, tinggal dengerin itu lagu sambil merem-merem, feeling ini feeling itu sambil petik-petik senar gitar , tidak lama kemudian tersenyum lebar… dan.. kemudian berkata “haha… gampaang.. kuncinya dah ketemu.. ayo ladies, mari kita bernyanyi..!”

Naahh.. bagaimana dengan yang bukan musisi…?? Atau yang pandai gitar tapi dengan skill yang pas-pasan… Pasti kepingin juga bisa seperti mereka yang dengan begitu mudahnya mencari chord gitar. Atau pasti kepingin juga mengetahui chord gitar lagu-lagu yang lagi hits saat ini kaan..??

Gampang.. pake software ini aja.. namanya Digital Music Mentor (DMM)


2. Guitar FX BOX 2.6
Mau menjadikan gitar analogmu tampil dengan suara melengking dan memberikan efek suara berkwalitas bening dan low latency?
Kamu membutuhkan sebuah software pemroses suara gitar yang benar-benar berkelas, dan jawabannya ada di Guitar FX BOX.
Program Guitar FX BOX kini telah hadir dengan versi baru yaitu Guitar FX BOX 2.6. Kamu bisa download, kemudian colokkan gitar (listrik) ke sound card, setup dan jalankan program ini, setelah itu kamu dapat mengatur efek suara dengan kualitas yang luar biasa.


3. Guitar Rig 3
Ini dia software gitar yang lebih hot, suaranya lebih garang. Kamu bisa pilih efek apa aja dan jadikan kamarmu sebagai studio musikmu sendiri. SELAMAT MENCOBA!

Download Guitar Rig 3

Rabu, 18 Agustus 2010

PREFERENCES

You can use "prefer to (do)" or "prefer -ing" to say what you prefer in general:
• I don't like cities. I prefer to live in the country OR I prefer livingin the country.
Study the differences in structure after prefer. We say:
  • I prefer something to something else.
  • I prefer to do something rather than (do) something else.
  • I prefer doing something to doing something else.
•  I prefer this coat to the coat you were wearing yesterday.
•  I prefer driving to traveling by train.
butI prefer to drive rather than travel by train.
•  Ann prefers to live in the country rather than (live) in a city.

Would prefer (I'd prefer...)

We use "would prefer" to say what somebody wants in a particular situation (not in general):
•  "Would you prefer tea or coffee" "Coffee, please."
We say "would prefer to do" (not "doing"):
•  "Shall we go by train?" "Well, I'd prefer to go by car. (not "I'd prefer going")
•  I'd prefer to stay at home tonight rather than go to the cinema.

Would rather (I'd rather...)

Would rather (do) = would prefer (to do). After would rather we use the infinitive without to.
Compare:
   "Shall we go by train?" "I'd prefer to go by car."
"I'd rather go by car. (not to go)
  "Would you rather have tea or coffee" "Coffee, please."
The negative is "I'd rather not (do something)":
•  I'm tired. I'd rather not go out this evening, if you don't mind.
•  "Do you want to go out this evening" "I'd rather not."

Study the structure after would rather:
I'd rather do something than (do) something else.
•  I'd rather stay at home tonight than go to the cinema.

I'd rather you did something

When you want somebody to do something, you can say "I'd rather you did something":
•  "Shall I stay here?" "I'd rather you came with us."
•  "Shall I tell them the news?" "No. I'd rather they didn't know."

•  "Shall I tell them or would you rather they didn't know?"
In this structure we use the past (came, did etc.), but the meaning is present or future, not past.
Compare:

•  I'd rather cook the dinner now.
but • I'd rather you cooked the dinner now. (not "I'd rather you cook")
The negative is "I'd rather you didn't...":
•  I'd rather you didn't tell anyone what I said.
• "Do you mind if I smoke?" "I'd rather you didn't."

DIRGAHAYU RI KE 65

Minggu, 15 Agustus 2010

The relationship between thought and language

Human thought, for the majority, is not simply the individual outcome of our evolved neural architecture, but also the result of our borrowing of the immense symbolic and intellectual resources available in language. What would human thought be like without language? . . .

My own feeling, and I have not worked with a population that has a non-Western sense of time, is that it’s likely a softer form of the Whorfian argument, that language and culture affect the perceptual qualities of different sensory channels to varying degrees (perhaps more in some phenomenal qualities than in others) is the most defensible (and arguably, this is what Whorf was arguing all along). Time, for example, may be difficult to perceive in certain ways if you are not culturally trained to habitually conducting yourself in relation to time appropriately: certainly, there is deep cultural difference in the degree to which people orient themselves by the clock, and varying emphases that societies place on recurrence or irreversibility of time. This isn’t to say that language is a perceptual world, but rather than languages can induce certain perceptual biases that may be more or less difficult to overcome. But what about those without language? . . .

So can people have thought without words? Well, the evidence-based answer would seem to be, yes, but it’s not the same sort of thought. Some things appear to be easier to ‘get’ without language (such as imitation of action), other things appear to be a kind of ‘all-at-once’ intuition (such as suddenly realizing all things have names), and other ideas are difficult without language being deeply enmeshed with cognitive development over long periods of time (like an English-based understanding of time as quantitative and spatialized). In other words, language is not simply an either/or proposition, but part of a cognitive developmental niche that shapes both our abilities and (unperceived) disabilities relative to the fully cognitively matured language-less individual.
--Greg Downey