Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XIX! (Sound Director Soken)

Hey everyone!

We're pleased to announce the next Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XIX! This next Live Letter will take place on Saturday, December 20, 2014, from 5:30 p.m. (PST) / Sunday, December 21, 2014, from 01:30 (GMT)!

In this thread we'd like you to specifically pose questions for Sound Director Masayoshi Soken. In addition to collecting your questions in real-time via Twitter, we will also use this thread to gather your questions ahead of time and answer them during the event.

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Are there any more compositions from previous FF titles you would like to bring to the game as an arrangement?

Will we see anymore music similar to titan where it biulds up throughout multiple phases of a fight, and then erupt into a memorable song?

when working on songs for Final Fantasy XIV, what is your main inspiration when creating the tunes, how do you know what it should sound like and the feel of the fight?

Can you solidly confirm that also Uematsu will compose tracks in 3.0 along with Soken?

Also, Since the sound director is present, Will you be adding more mount music that are unique to the different individual mounts?

Give us some example of what type of items are you planning to add to the cash shop.

Raider's Boon is really out of place when riding Sleipnir. Will new tracks be added for different mounts?

Will we be sometime getting music that is unique to dungeons and Especially, each different turn of Bahamut, or, going forward, the new raids? Hearing the same music, repeated from turn 1-4, turn 6-8 and turn 10-11 gets kind of boring.

This seems to be an issue with a majority of the parts of the game, including guildhests and FATEs. I'm sure there's a lot more potential for unique music or at least variations of the music for these parts of the game.

Also, is there any plan to have music that changes depending on the event or weather ongoing//Odin or Behemoth spawned?

Will there be exclusive battle music available in the cash shop?

Will we ever ever ever be able to turn off the battle music or get different themes for it??

It feels somewhat strange when the music suddenly goes silent for a minute or so in each zone/area when the music has played once, similar to Pharos Sirius. Are there any plans for looping music in the outdoor zones? Music that plays in areas such as Floating City of Nym/ The Burning Wall are nice, but are over after just about half a minute of playing.

One of my favorite FF songs is Dancing Mad is there any plans to have this added to a future patch / expansion ?

Can we get an option to turn off battle music?

Soken! Will you Eternally Bond with me? (I'll wear knee-socks under the dress!)

Will there be different battle musics depending on the region?
Like one set different themes for Normal Battle, FATE and boss battle in the Black Shroud, Thanaland, La Noscea, Coerthas and Mor Donnah?

Hello! Thank you for accepting our questions! :)

Will there be another remix of the Coerthas battle theme in the new Heaven's Ward expansion? Can you explain how you decided to use certain instruments for different versions of the battle theme in each area? (For example, harpsichord for Coerthas, choir for Mor Dhona, and flutes for Vylbrand?)

Are there any collaborations that you would be excited to do with other producers? I would love to see a collaboration project between you and Yasunori Mitsuda.

Can we expect any jazz inspired sound tracks for dungeons in 2.5 or in Havensward?

I saw you in Las Vegas and you are awesome. In your awesome opinion, what is the thing you are most excited for in FFXIV in general, FFXIV in reference to music and sound, and in life in general?

Thank you very much for being amazing and playing Primal Songs. Please tell me more about you and your band mates, as you are all very talented people.

Is there any chance that the different jobs can get characterizing songs for their 3.0 Job Quests?

As some of the mounts have unique themes would it be possible for Soken-san to create a new theme for the Magitech mount based on Terra's theme from Final Fantasy VI? Many of us are nostalgic riding them around and hum the theme on the way to missions.

i noticed is some areas in this game, and ff11 there were some maps that had music that would replay over and over again. i rally enjoyed that and like to know if there are any plans on this in 2.5-3.0:cool:

Can we hear the Leviathan music before Yoshida asked you to change the vocals? I'm intrigued as to what it was going to sound like.

Would it be feasible to add an option to play whatever music from the game that we want in our houses, for example with a jukebox furnishing?

Any chance we'll see a collaboration with Nobuo Uematsu?

Any chance we'll see some music from 1.0 return?

Has adding a little more voiceovers in the City States ever been considered?

I want the sound track "Quicksand" from 1.0 to be brought back to the game please.
That is my favorite battle track from 1.0.

About looping music, the tracks should be very long to not become boring fast (like the new one in Pharos). Will you add long tracks in the new 3.0 areas?

Soken, where's my housing music box?

Regarding composing and recording symphonic themes, are you primarily using midi synthesizers? Or do you have ensembles perform with woodwind/brass/string instruments in SE's in house studio?

I wonder what BGM theme on Heavensward will you compose

We need some music at night. Areas feel lonely without em :(

Please Play "Battle to the Death" - Cloud of Darkness remix for Final Fantasy XIV!

Soken-san, I noticed a lot of your boss music falls into the Rock gerne of music. Is Rock your favorite type of music? If so, please tell us at least one of your favorite Japanese bands, and English bands?

Can we get some XI songs into FFXIV? I personally love Breaking Ground.

Hello! Thank you for answering our questions!

I want to ask if there is going to be a brand-new regular battle theme for Coerthas in the Heavensward Expansion. (The best way to give a "new" feeling for an expansion is by having brand-new music.)

Is there a particular score that is your favorite from the Final Fantasy series?

I loved Titan Extreme's final fifth phase theme because of its intensity. Got anything in the new expansion that will blow my socks off?

First I want to say that I love Soken's work on FFXIV:ARR. The sound effects are top quality and the music is simply beautiful.

Is there any chance that Naoshi Mizuta (the Nanaa Mihgo's would be amazing) or Kumi Tanioka might work on some tracks with him?