Quote Originally Posted by Bled View Post
I have no concrete proof that SE chops up the music but if you watch all the interviews with Nobuo Uematsu you would know the pride he takes in his music scores. Then look at all his work with the FF XIV songs in Distant Worlds, and i come to the conclusion that SE either chopped the music or put heavy restrictions on Uematsu when developing the songs for the game.
He can easily decide to re-arrange his pieces for orchestra for projects like Distant Worlds. They have to be simple and forever-looping to be put into a video game as background music, or else the piece would end, maybe restart, and it would sound awkward for a second (this does happen in some games). He creates looped pieces on the computer for the games he's worked on, then he creates a new score for orchestra arrangements, with new varieties and such.

In short, both the music you hear in all of the games as well as the epic orchestral arrangements you hear on Distant Worlds are music straight out of Uematsu's brain. It's not difficult for a composer to take something and re-arrange it, granted he has the prior experience.