In line with next week’s Music Mondays which will be featuring Florence + the Machine live in the studio, this week I have a BBC live studio session from UK Dubstep Duo DEVoltuion . . . and a bunch of other musicians joining them!

Really great live performance and rendition on my Ottawa-based record label’s homepage

My conversations this evening with EA Games went something like this:

E.S..: Hi, my name is E.S… How may I help you?
You: I recently got a new Macbook Pro, and now I need to reinstall the sims 3, my question is can I have my account switched to a Mac version to re install on my new machine?
E.S..: you have the Sims 3 Mac physical disc, and you want to know if you can install it on a new computer?
You: I have the sims 3 for PC via download
You: and now I’m not using windows on my new machine, it does not have it.
E.S..: Unfortunately, there would not be a way to cross sync them on different formats
You: so are you saying the only way this would work is if I re purchase the sims for mac, and all the expansions?
E.S..: correct
You: well that’s a waste of money, I can see why America has experienced a recession.

Well at least he was able to give me a straight answer. And really, I can see why its their policy, but if I wanted I could just keep installing this on as many PC’s as I get, so I dont know why a shift in OS is a radical issue for the software maker, as long as I dont keep switching every week!

Well I’m digging out my bootcamp and XP discs . . . and I’m not happy about it

I have been looking for a few more ways to improve this site and lately I have added Disqus to handle all the comment and trackbacks for ColdplaySucks, just some mostly under the hood improvements!

I just finished writing an article last week about the iPad 2 in Canada but I’ve been wanting to find out more information about the release date.

MacRumors, a Mac News and Rumors site has recently shifted their position about the possibility of a Retina Display. Originally they had proposed that the next generation iPad 2 would have a Retina display but it might have a regular display.

The latest release date rumor seems to be March 9, close to some distant tech press events.

Welcome to coldplaysucks.com for more Apple Logic tutorials check out: http://www.coldplaysucks.com/tutorials/logic-tutorials/

It has been several weeks since i’ve posted a tutorial here, but I swear; I have a good excuse!

I’ve been working on a number of tracks and also getting ready to start another semester at Carleton University. But now on to the audio tutorial.

I noticed one thing that many people are searching for is a way to simply do a “fade in” or “fade out” on their audio in Logic. Coming from other DAW’s you might expect a lot of clicking around and creating automation, but there’s actually a very elegant solution in Logic.

Hitting the escape key will bring up this tool switcher menu in Logic

The Fade Tool:
Seriously, it’s that easy!

As soon as you hit the escape key you can change the role of your primary tool. By default it is the Pointer Tool, but it can be many different things. When you first load up the fade tool it will automatically allows you to draw a fade on an audio region. Obviously the difference between a fade in and a fade out is whether or not it occurs at the beginning or end of an audio region.

Sometimes fades can be difficult to see which is why I zoomed in in my second screen shot. There is also second method to generate fades.

Inspector’s Region Paramater Box:
This is the second and more verbose method of creating a fade on an audio region, you can actually go into the Inspector, by hitting “i” or clicking the Inspector logo from the Logic menu bar.

Fade Applied