"Reset" - An Okami Arrangement
Channel: Step
Date: 2012-08-21

YOU CAN FIND THE DOWNLOAD LINK HERE:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/495770

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Hey, thanks for watching! This is a remix of the Reset (Thank You) theme of the amazing game Okami. It took a LOT of work (probably around 60 - 70 hours of collective work) and I wasn't the only one who made it! It's a five-way collaboration!

Shanath on Newgrounds organised this whole thing by making a MIDI arrangement of Reset (Thank You). Then, she sent it to me and I remade the whole thing, changing the instrumentation, some of the composition, the drums, etc... and I also mixed everything (that took nearly 30 hours). Buoy from Newgrounds also helped here by recording all of the guitar parts (acoustic and electric) himself and making it sound amazing. After that, fyri52 from YouTube sung the vocals and I tuned them. I sent everything to Mrmilkcarton from Newgrounds who mastered it all, and did some further mixing.

In short:

Shanath - Organiser, original creator ... http://shanath.newgrounds.com/
Me - Arranger, mixer, vocal tuning ... http://step.newgrounds.com/
Buoy - Guitars ...http://buoy.newgrounds.com/
fyri52 - Vocals ... http://www.youtube.com/user/fyri52
Mrmilkcarton - Mastering, further mixing ... http://mrmilkcarton.newgrounds.com/

I used FL Studio to make this, with the plugins East/West Symphonic Orchestra, East/West Ra, East/West Stormdrum and EZdrummer, and some random wind chime samples I got from the Internet. The video and captions were made with Windows Live Movie Maker, with images I found on Google.

That's about it! Comments are, as always, immensely appreciated! Oh and sorry for the letterboxing in the video!

Also, here are artists who made two of the great images above:

http://my.freewallpaper4.me/xploited/
http://seventy2seconds.deviantart.com/

I couldn't find the rest since the images were from wallpaper sites that don't show the name of the original artist, like:
http://www.artofokami.com/
http://www.wallpaperstock.net/
http://desktop.freewallpaper.me/
http://www.konachan.com/
http://www.fanpop.com/
http://gallery.minitokyo.net/
http://wall.alphacoders.com/
http://www.wallsdl.com/
http://www.wallpaperswide.com/
http://www.wallz.eu/
http://www.wallpaperswa.com/
http://www.hdfreewallpapers.com/

Thanks again for watching!

Lyrics:
Millions of flower petals fall,
Scattering and coloring the town,
However this time at it's end,
As the wind, had foretold it to us all.

There's no need to worry anymore
The seasons always find a way to change.
We knew that ever since the time that we,
Watched the moon in it's brilliance before.

All the time constantly, we shed these tears and we
do it again and again,

We don't know how much it's worth,
until it's gone away for good.

If I could have just one wish I would
go back to who I was
Yesterday, and I'd say
My Goodbye's to you.

If my feelings stay the same and do
not change or fade away,
Just meet me at our favorite cherry tree.

We made a promise on that sunny day,
so I made sure that it won't be lost,
by tracing my fingers on the beams
of the sunlight that chased the dark away.

No moment is the same as the one after it,
you can't return to the past

I'll move on with life and then,
I won't hesitate again!

So that all my deepest prayers will reach you
Safely where you are,
To this day,
I will sing this song again for you

If the answers that I'm looking for
exist within the world,
Gently, please just tell me
that they do.

If I could have just one wish I would
go back to who I was
Back in time,
just to sing once again to you,

If my feelings stay the same and do
not change or fade away,
Just meet me at our favorite cherry tree.

So that all my deepest prayers will reach you
Safely where you are,
To this day,
I will sing this song again for you

If the answers that I'm looking for
are right before my eyes,
Gently, please just tell me
that they are.

...and Reset all the sadness within me.

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