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An inside look at 'Whisperlude', my remix of 'A Little Princess' directed by Alfonso Cuaron in 1995. In this video, I take you through the individual sounds and sections that make up the track in FLStudio, and share with you my experiences in composing it.

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  • Larissa Holderness 9 months ago
    You do amazing work! Love listening to your music.
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  • George Atkinson 9 months ago
    Excellent.
    keep doing these videos please i beg of you.
    your like the Andrew Kramer of music!
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  • Simon McClure 9 months ago
    Please read my comment made on the Bangarang video regarding the "lock to content" option, I believe it will solve a bunch of problems for you. In addition, you can access a pattern by double clicking it's clip event in the playlist.

    Beside that though, these video's are super inspirational. I can easily get obsessed with highs to the point that I completely lose focus with mastering. Your strengths are clearly the intimate understanding of sound itself, composition is your soul strength, like any talented musician.. I just hope you can get round these ultimately, small and petty issues with FL Studio!
  • Nick Bertke plus 9 months ago
    Thanks for the tips, Simon. I'll remember them in future.

    Double-clicking clips in the playlist also opens the piano roll. Is there a way to disable this? It's a nuisance. The lock feature is fairly new - thanks for pointing it out.
  • Simon McClure 9 months ago
    I think what happens is that every editor related to the pattern opens up on a double click, so if a pattern has both step sequenced notes and piano rolled stuff, it'll open up both. In that sense, I suppose that is a way FL Studio are forcing people to organize a project in a certain way.

    You could have piano rolled sequences as a separate pattern, that'd work nicely for traditional stuff where SS notes tend to be drum riffs and piano roll stuff tends to be melodies, for traditional house stuff.. but for micro-sampling, it's a bit inconvenient.

    All I could really suggest is pressing F7 after you double click on a score-based clip event, which will hide the piano roll.
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  • Katie Blank 9 months ago
    I love Whisperlude! You did a great job of capturing the essence of the movie. How long did it take you the make the track?
  • Nick Bertke plus 9 months ago
    The track took me around a month in total. Thanks for your support, Katie.
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  • Alvin Pingol 9 months ago
    Thanks for putting these together, Nick. Always fascinating to see the creative process that goes on behind the scenes. This song is way more complex than what I was able to recreate for my cover, and it's nice to hear (and see) all the small intricacies going on in the background that may go overlooked during a casual listening.

    That final section is mind-blowing, by the way. Initially I thought you had simply used a modified version of the main vocal line, run through volume and pan automation. But to see that you've actually arranged unique micro-samples... wow. Truly jaw dropping. Well done man =]

    Keep up the good work, and keep the breakdowns coming!
  • Nick Bertke plus 9 months ago
    Thanks, Alvin. It's always great reading your feedback. I really admire your work.
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  • Matthew Hoelter 9 months ago
    This is just fantastic. I've been following your work since Alice, and as a video guy myself, it inspires me to push myself creatively on every project. I often put on my Pogo playlist and just jam out while I work. Seeing how you piece them together in FL Studio has been a real treat.

    Keep up the great work! You were a blast to see live, and perhaps our paths can cross on a project someday in the future!
  • Nick Bertke plus 9 months ago
    Many thanks, Matthew. Glad you enjoyed it.
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  • Dick Mitic 9 months ago
    Really interesting stuff there. How do you go about deciding which particular snippets of audio you want to sample?
  • Nick Bertke plus 9 months ago
    I let my ears do the work there. It's all about finding sounds you can love individually.
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  • djhdd plus 9 months ago
    Thank you for the behind the scene's videos, how about one with video editing rather than just sound editing in FL studio.
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  • simdude2u 9 months ago
    Can you upload an instrumental version of the song with out the voices, to ether your website or youtube page?
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  • Chris McClelland 8 months ago
    I think if anything, it would be harder to make the music video for the song, cause you have to go through the hour and a half video and actually find the 1 second clip for each and every one of the samples used in the song and synch them up. Imagine having to go through the video a million times to find all the little pieces.
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  • pen! 7 months ago
    i'm trying to understand how you edit the video..do you go back and search for each clip used as a sample in the track? that seems like it would take a massive amount of time
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  • Cognitive Films pro 7 months ago
    Really appreciate you posting these. Not that I know what you are actually doing.
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  • qoaa 7 months ago
    Would love to see some behind the scenes how you do the video editing syncing up and slicing the videos to the music!
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  • Joan Montrice 1 month ago
    You're a Genius.
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  • aaron lance lopez plus 1 month ago
    This is amazing, keep up the great work! I remeber I used to play with FL for HOURS on end. I just bought Ableton and the APC 20- new stuff to learn.
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  • Miles Duncan 2 weeks ago
    You should be a golf announcer.
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