Ask Sound Director Masayoshi Soken Your Questions

Could we have the option to turn off the default music in inn rooms and hear the normal city music, like we can for residential districts?

With the FF7 remake on it's way, could we see some FF7 songs added to the game? Like the random encounter battle theme or maybe one winged angel?

Hi Soken!
Outside of the gaming industry, who is your favorite modern musical composer? (Movies, theatre, singers)

What inspired you to come up with the idea of Implementing «eternal wind» from FFIII into the Shadowbringers Theme

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Originally Posted by Vondra

What inspired you to come up with the idea of Implementing «eternal wind» from FFIII into the Shadowbringers Theme

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That's not something you need to ask Soken, actually - the song is used directly in the FFIII-inspired Crystal Tower storyline already, and plays at the end of the final cutscene. So it's carrying on the same music into the next part of that plot thread.

Can we please have the warring lanner music changed to second phase sephirot music?

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

Hi, Soken!

First of all, I want to say I’m a huge fan of your work—the Shadowbringers OST is amazing, and I can’t wait to see the rest of the music added in future patches!

As for my question, I apologize if it is something you may not be able to answer. Recently, with Patch 5.1, new combat sounds were added to all the voices for each race. I was wondering what prompted this decision to add in more combat sounds?

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My second question is piggybacking off of my first question.

After hearing a series of mixed opinions about the new combat sounds that came with Patch 5.1, would it be possible to ever add a toggle-feature that allows players to choose whether they would prefer to stick with just the original sounds only or have the new sounds added? Thank you!

Are there any plans to expand the size of the house orchestrion? There are too many good songs to fit in that tiny playlist :(

Mr. Soken, you do fantastic work with leitmotifs and re-stylings of other songs. I especially love "Shadows Withal." What is your favorite leitmotif? Is there any leitmotif that you found difficult to use in a particular style?

Can we get a FFXV style MP3 player?

What were the themes you tried to portray the most in ShadowBringers' expansion theme?