Heavensward features a lot of nice music, but who actually composed it? It was hyped Nobuo Uematsu will return for expansion, but I've never seen any references about him creating anything other than the main theme 'Dragonsong' (which is nice but much less loved than ARR main theme 'Answers'), and he's listed only in that role in titles.
Does that mean all the fine music of Heavensward including Ishgard, field and primal themes were actually composed by sound director Masayoshi Soken? Give credit where credit is due!
Who is the music composer of Heavensward?
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08-02-2015, 08:34 PMSuperZayWho is the music composer of Heavensward?
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08-02-2015, 08:38 PMFantasy9
Nobuo Uomostue
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08-02-2015, 08:54 PMPhyllo
From the get go they said that uematsu would come back for the MAIN THEME, the rest of the ost is Soken's work as usual.
Everything has been credited properly, you just misunderstood the announcement. -
08-02-2015, 08:54 PMSuperZay
Nobuo Uematsu is listed everywhere ONLY as main theme creator. Why would they do it if he has composed all other tracks?
http://i.imgur.com/xtTf26X.jpg -
08-02-2015, 09:14 PMFelisBut there are also some old tracks from 1.0 in HW, that are from NobueQuote:
Originally Posted by SuperZay
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08-02-2015, 10:14 PMAdventica6
Nobueo "the king" Uematsu.
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08-02-2015, 10:18 PMchronofantasy
Nobuo Uematsu of course! The God of video game music. I believe his songs will go down in history as classical songs 100+ years from now, much like how we have Beethoven, Mozart, etc. I already saw some youtube videos with classical music back to back and they throw in one of his FF8 songs in the mix as well under classical music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_Uematsu -
08-02-2015, 10:20 PMChewy2nd
There's a mix of Soken's music and Uematsu in there, a number of the new songs were variations on Dragonsong too, not to mention the 1.0 classics.
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08-03-2015, 12:08 AMPhydeaux
I'm having a very hard time believing I read all of this...
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08-03-2015, 12:21 AMSuperZayWe all know who is Uematsu, thank you. But for Heavensward he's a 'guest' composer who did only the main theme.Quote:
Originally Posted by chronofantasy
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08-03-2015, 12:40 AMSevenHeavens
Soken is ARR and HW composer, not Uematsu.
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08-03-2015, 12:42 AMmtrj1776But things like the main theme, hamlet music taken from version 1, theres alot of version 1 music in heavensward, and the only music soken made in version 1 was the garuda theme tune.. so yeaQuote:
Originally Posted by SevenHeavens
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08-03-2015, 12:44 AMEndemerrinI know, right? Poor Soken!Quote:
Originally Posted by Phydeaux
He's such an amazingly talented composer. He did sound design for 1.0, and was the main composer for both ARR and Heavensward's soundtracks. As has been mentioned by a few people, Nobuo has only had a very small hand in things since 1.0. In fact, Soken actually did a lot of the music on the tail end of 1.0 even, if I recall correctly.
He's very quickly becoming one of my all time favorite video game composers. Can't wait to hear what he has in store for us for the future! -
08-03-2015, 12:54 AMmtrj1776
Soken done garuda theme in version 1 , the OST was done by Nobuo Uematsu otherwise.
I think Soken is a great composer too, hes most likely on level with Nobuo only not as well known yet. I was just disappointed to see music recycled, even if it does make business sense. It makes me very sad hearing the hamlet music at the bosses in fractual. I want hamlet back but most likely never will be.
But final line, Yes Soken is also a great composer. They need to advertise him more! Garuda theme was one of my fave in version 1. -
08-03-2015, 02:01 AMSove92
Just wow what people are telling here.
1.0: Nobuo did everything but Broken Angel, Good King Moggle Mog XII and Rise of the White Raven, which are Soken's work.
2.0: All Soken
3.0: Nobuo only did main theme, Soken did the rest -
08-03-2015, 02:06 AMFelisThe GC musics are not from Uematsu and not from SokenQuote:
Originally Posted by Sove92
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08-03-2015, 02:12 AMEvangela
people should be able to tell the style differences of each composer already after listening to a bunch of their works.
HW themes are Soken's, except for the main theme. -
08-03-2015, 02:46 AMPhylloExcept it's false, many tracks were composed by various artists back in 1.0, a good amount was from uematsu indeed but not everythingQuote:
Originally Posted by Sove92
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08-03-2015, 01:52 PMAltijacek
While soken did HW Uematsu did the main theme, and lots of the main theme is used in HW
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08-03-2015, 02:29 PMDaraliiWhite Raven's so good, too. Poor guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sove92
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08-03-2015, 02:58 PMGalkaBikini
I'm really offended that no one has mentioned Naoshi Mizuta. I knew that he was working on FFXIV just by hearing some tracks that sounds like FFXI music. That guy is incredible.
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08-03-2015, 04:38 PMKuwaitum
I see Heavensward soundtracks are more into my mood for a fantasy game, but still I feel the lack of the endlessness and neverendingness of the music like Yoko Shimomura's (Legend of Mana) and Junya Nakano's (Threads of Fate) had.
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08-03-2015, 06:07 PMAriaEniaOh, What would I kill for some more of Yasunori Mitsuda's works like on Xenogears.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kuwaitum
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08-03-2015, 06:32 PMRemilia_NightfallSo much this. As much as I love Uematsu and even met him in person, I find Mitsuda slightly above him in my personal Awesomeness list.Quote:
Originally Posted by AriaEnia
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08-03-2015, 06:34 PMWarlyx+1 , Mizuta is awesome :)Quote:
Originally Posted by GalkaBikini
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08-03-2015, 06:47 PMLeshpar
I find it kind of funny the number of people who misspelled Nobuo Uematu's name even after the picture that was posted with his name in it.
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08-03-2015, 07:29 PMCGMidlander
http://vgmdb.net/album/44019
For ARR
http://vgmdb.net/album/39645
For 1.0
There's no soundtrack out for Heavenward yet, but you can bet track-specific credits will be available when it comes out.