{"id":899,"date":"2021-07-13T10:28:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T01:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=899"},"modified":"2022-05-13T18:09:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T09:09:37","slug":"20210605-899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20210605-899\/","title":{"rendered":"FFXIV sound director, Masayoshi Soken, receives well wishes in the form of a medley video featuring 40 musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Publication date of the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20210605-164074\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a>: 2021-06-05 17:00 (JST)<br>Translated by. Braden Noyes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>It\u2019s been about 3 weeks since the sound director of Square Enix\u2019s MMORPG <em><strong>Final Fantasy XIV<\/strong><\/em> (<em>FFXIV<\/em>), Masayoshi Soken, announced at Digital Fan Festival 2021 that his cancer, a diagnosis that he had kept from the public, has gone into remission. Once the event ended, the hashtag #WecomeBackSoken started appearing on social media, while players in <em><em>FFXIV<\/em><\/em> also began defeating in-game bosses as tribute and gathering together to offer prayers for Soken\u2019s health. (<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/articles\/news\/20210521-821\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Related article<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On June 4, 2021, a YouTuber by the name of Husky by the Greek posted a <em><em>FFXIV<\/em> <\/em>medley titled \u201cFinal Fantasy XIV Medley with 40 Musicians &#8211; Welcome Back Soken\u201d. The stunning quality of these 40 <em>FFXIV<\/em>-loving musicians was even enough to evoke a response from Soken himself.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Final Fantasy XIV Medley with 40 Musicians - Welcome Back Soken\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UW7thAIF8TA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Husky is known for his video game music arrangements and has even uploaded a number of <em>FFXIV<\/em> compositions in the past. You can even find some collaboration videos he has done with others in the past, but none of them were quite the size of this latest video. From guitarists to pianists, to singers and a capella vocalizations, this collaboration includes contributions from 40 different people. Not only that, but some of the players even decided to make use of <em><em>FFXIV<\/em>\u2019s <\/em>in-game instrument feature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The medley includes iconic music from the game that players will immediately recognize such as \u201cThe Maker&#8217;s Ruin,\u201d \u201cTriumph,\u201d \u201cFull Fathom Five,\u201d and \u201cShadowbringers.\u201d Some might even call this ambitious 40-person medley a culmination of the history of <em>FFXIV<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So how exactly did this medley come to be? Well, we at AUTOMATON were able to get into contact with Husky to learn more about what went into making this video.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210605-164074-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210605-164074-001.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210605-164074-001-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210605-164074-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210605-164074-001-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210605-164074-001-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210605-164074-001-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210605-164074-001-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210605-164074-001-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210605-164074-001-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>After the announcement during Final Fantasy Fan Festival 2021, Husky was invited to a Discord group where members who wanted to create a piece of art to honor Soken were gathering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As he puts it, \u201cI have been invited to a community Discord full of members who wanted to create art for Soken-san. For the music part, I wanted to create a medley with tons of musicians from the community. I also asked on my own Discord server and directly contacted some members of the community I already knew. 40 people answered from all over the world. Some of them are my friends, but I did not know most of them before that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mixing, arrangement, and video editing were all handled by Husky. He added, \u201cI took my guitar and arranged a medley with the best tracks that Soken wrote. It came out naturally and I had a precise idea of where all the different instruments would fit easily. Then I wrote all the instrument parts for all the musicians and sent them the partitions and audio files containing the sections I wanted them to play. They sent me back their performance and I have mixed everything together. The medley contains more than 100 tracks!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video took off after being uploaded, getting over 49,000 views in the first day alone. Soken himself even saw the video, posting a thank you message to his Twitter account.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whoa, wooowwhoa Thaaaank yoou!<br>I am very happy.<br>So many musicians of light involved, so many phrases present, this is the Grammy of the gaming world!<br>Thank you so much!<br>The FFXIV gaming community is the best in the woooorld!<br>I will listen to this over and over again.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FFXIV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FFXIV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FF14?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FF14<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KS55VG4fic\">https:\/\/t.co\/KS55VG4fic<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u30cb\u30fc\u7956\u5805 (@SOKENsquareenix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SOKENsquareenix\/status\/1400902767594508289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Since the announcement at Digital Fantasy Fan Festival 2021 of his cancer going into remission, fans have continued offering wishes of good health both inside and outside the game. This mash-up of music originally composed by Soken is Husky\u2019s way of welcoming him back from his stay in the hospital, and the video includes the well wishes of 40 different members of the incredible <em>FFXIV<\/em> community. All of us here at AUTOMATON are also praying for Masayoshi Soken\u2019s continued good health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FFXIV sound director, Masayoshi Soken, receives well wishes in the form of a medley video featuring 40 musicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,3],"tags":[36,18],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-final-fantasy","category-news","tag-final-fantasy","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FFXIV sound director, Masayoshi Soken, receives well wishes in the form of a medley video featuring 40 musicians - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20210605-899\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FFXIV sound director, Masayoshi Soken, receives well wishes in the form of a medley video featuring 40 musicians - 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