Regarding the new music.

I must know more!

Who is the composer of the new Grand Company theme songs?

What are your future musical plans for the game (the 1.18 changes and additions came out of nowhere!)

I love the OST, and I also love the new songs, especially the way the dungeon BGM's function. Tell us more!

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

I must know more!

Who is the composer of the new Grand Company theme songs?

What are your future musical plans for the game (the 1.18 changes and additions came out of nowhere!)

I love the OST, and I also love the new songs, especially the way the dungeon BGM's function. Tell us more!

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Mizuta and Uematsu collaborations would be nice.

It would be nice to know who did the new tracks and their official names.

There's a ton of unused music that was composed before release and never put in. Even after 1.18, there's quite a few "new" tracks that they can put in the game^^ Been w8ing for the New Choco remix in 14 to be implemented and will finally get that in 1.19 :D A majority of the "new" tracks added are remixes or variations of past FF titles... not a big fan of them using a remixed version of tactics map music though but w/e xD personal preference... much more epic songs to use :P

I hope Kumi Tanioka writes some music.
Her style would really fit well here.

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Originally Posted by Misha

There's a ton of unused music that was composed before release and never put in. Even after 1.18, there's quite a few "new" tracks that they can put in the game^^ Been w8ing for the New Choco remix in 14 to be implemented and will finally get that in 1.19 :D A majority of the "new" tracks added are remixes or variations of past FF titles... not a big fan of them using a remixed version of tactics map music though but w/e xD

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I am betting there is a large portion of the playerbase that is eagerly awaiting the newest FF chocobo theme, i know i am excited for it! More FF atmosphere incoming!

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Originally Posted by Gramul

I home Kumi Tanioka writes some music.
Her style would really fit well here.

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I heard that Kumi Tanioka went freelance, so she doesn't work exclusively for SE anymore.

I hope we hear more of her music, too. I love the music from the Crystal Chronicles games.

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

I heard that Kumi Tanioka went freelance, so she doesn't work exclusively for SE anymore.

I hope we hear more of her music, too. I love the music from the Crystal Chronicles games.

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Oh she is the composer for Crystal Chronicles? As bad as everyone made that game out to be, it was really great fun and had some beautiful music!

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Oh she is the composer for Crystal Chronicles? As bad as everyone made that game out to be, it was really great fun and had some beautiful music!

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Yep. One of my biggest disappointments from Fanfest 2007 was that they quickly sold out of the boxed set of the FFXI soundtracks. Both Kumi Tanioka and Naoshi Mizuta were there, and I SO wanted an autographed OST box set from them.

I love the news musics too !!!
But they are not really new new : some really bad people looked into the source of the alpha version of the game and found more than 60 tracks of music composed by Uematsu, including all the 'new' tracks of 1.18.
With the 'new' music tracks of 1.18, i think we may approximatly have reached 45 tracks on 60 ... or less.

I WANT THEM TOO !!!! And to know their names !!!
I hope they are not going to wait the ps3 release to release the complete soundtrack. :(

I think they should just give registered owners of the game the OST for free.

I bet the 3 companies music is Mizuta. If you hear the Limsa one (Maelstrom) you can recognize his style pretty well. Also the other 2 have something from him.

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Originally Posted by Liham

I love the news musics too !!!
But they are not really new new : some really bad people looked into the source of the alpha version of the game and found more than 60 tracks of music composed by Uematsu, including all the 'new' tracks of 1.18.
With the 'new' music tracks of 1.18, i think we may approximatly have reached 45 tracks on 60 ... or less.

I WANT THEM TOO !!!! And to know their names !!!
I hope they are not going to wait the ps3 release to release the complete soundtrack. :(

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The GC tracks are completely new.

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Originally Posted by Rimmer

Sakimoto and Uematsu collaborations would be nice.

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I fixed that for you.

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Sakimoto

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I fixed that for you.

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Only if he uses an actual orchestra this time. He has some great compositions, but the midi quality of the instruments really dampens my enjoyment of them. They're orchestral pieces, they should be performed by an orchestra. Sequencers are best left to rhythmic beats and otherworldly sounds.

It would be awesome to have one different composer for every future expansion, depending on the "argument" in it. Like this:

'War' based expansion = H.Sakimoto
'Mistery' based expansion = Y.Mitsuda

and so on.. :D

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Originally Posted by Gramul

Only if he uses an actual orchestra this time. He has some great compositions, but the midi quality of the instruments really dampens my enjoyment of them. They're orchestral pieces, they should be performed by an orchestra. Sequencers are best left to rhythmic beats and otherworldly sounds.

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I dunno. I think the SE's sound folks nailed the synthetic symphony pretty nicely in FF XII. Especially when you hear it on a high end car stereo. Mmmm...

Agreed. The new music is wonderful. One of the defining characteristics of Final Fantasy is its fantastic musical score, and FFXIV has never once disappointed in that area. It's got the sort of music that'll bring me out in nostalgic joy in ten years or so.

I still have a copy of the fan-made Ronfaure song from FFXI with lyrics. The music was beautiful in its own right, so its a real treat to see it come to life like that. The nostalgia value is off the charts for someone like me who made their home in San d'Oria.

The making-of videos make it clear that Uematsu was sole composer for FFXIV, the whole point being that he hasn't done all the music for a FF game in quite some time. I'll grab the youtube link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35uv3oa1fx0

There are 70-80 tracks for FFXIV (implying that if you only found 60...), all composed by Uematsu in his Ping Pong Studio. It's been ten years since he did every track in an FF title.
They also go into his composition technique and discuss making the theme song, "Answers".
He would play a Keeper of the Moon and he's also out of dirt on Tanaka.

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The making-of videos make it clear that Uematsu was sole composer for FFXIV, the whole point being that he hasn't done all the music for a FF game in quite some time. I'll grab the youtube link...

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It's true that he was initially the sole composer. However, the "Grand Companies" is a pretty new concept (I think Yoshi-P was the one who came up with the idea, but you'd have to look at the first few letters) and it's very possible they only recently commissioned someone to create the 3 new themes.

The three songs weren't in the leaked 70~80 tracks of music from the alpha version either.

Yes we want more and they should sell these on iTunes as well!

I'm really hoping SE lets Naoshi Mizuta and Kumi Tanioka do some music for XIV also. A little bit of variety is always good and their style goes so well together like in XI it did. Also Naoshi Mizuta's OST for FF four warriors of light is amazing!

Not too much of a spoiler but for those who haven't heard the chocobo music already its kinda of western.

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Not too much of a spoiler but for those who haven't heard the chocobo music already its kinda of western.

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I went and looked for it, and its ugh...Nooooooooo.

There's a Field and Battle music soundtrack available on iTunes, I was wondering if we are going to get any new ones soon?

I wish Shoji Meguro would do some music for this game (link).

Too bad hes with Atlus though :X

Its all Nobuo~ he wrote more then 70 songs atm. If SE doest it right, they will ask him to do more~ ^^ He is simply a genius!
Here is a tribute to him from G4 Icon's~! Enjoy! (Shivers included) ^_^

Part 1
http://youtu.be/sqEnZ608Qlg
Part 2
http://youtu.be/mZ102AXKboM

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Originally Posted by SuzakuCMX

I wish Shoji Meguro would do some music for this game (link).

Too bad hes with Atlus though :X

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Ahh, Meguro.

*goes to happy place*