Who's doing the music now?

[Teknoman]

It worked for FFXI because mobs took long enough to kill that you got to enjoy the battle theme. Problem with FFXIV is that you take down mobs fast enough that you rarely get to enjoy the theme. Ever go through the entire Coerthas Battle Theme? It is really good and gets better about 2 minutes into the song. What mob takes more than 2 minutes to kill? Only NMs and mobs you can't beat.

I agree on the battle themes, but I was speaking of the various overworld themes for the most part.

Also battle music playing as long as the exp chain is active sounds like a great idea.

[Griss]

The real question is...: Is Nobuo Uematsu still in music team? Or he abandoned the ship ?

To be fair, He was never On the "music team". He has his own private company and was contracted to do the first score of the game.

[Teknoman]

At any rate, I hope they start to make more use of some of the less heard battle themes. On that note, the stronghold area battle themes are excellent.

[Zezlar]

Hopefully it's Naoshi Mizuta. IMO he is the new Nobuo for this time period. His work is excellent in every regard.

[Teknoman]

Who composed the dungeon boss battle music?

[Velhart]

Who composed the dungeon boss battle music?

Nobuo, it is part of the original OSt.

New music from my knowledge so far are....

GC Chocobo Theme
Amal'jaa SH
Kobald SH
Shposhae Battle Theme
Moogle Primal Fight

Might be more, but these are not part of the original soundtrack.

[Zahak]

http://blog.jp.square-enix.com/music...iv_119bgm.html Does this help anyone at all?

Hmm I'm noticing a lot of songs I still have yet to hear in game

And heres Patch .20 song sample blog LINK

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Nobuo, it is part of the original OSt.

New music from my knowledge so far are....

GC Chocobo Theme
Amal'jaa SH
Kobald SH
Shposhae Battle Theme
Moogle Primal Fight

Might be more, but these are not part of the original soundtrack.

Would like to correct that. New tracks in the game are either just that or rearranged by the music team. The chocobo theme is a constant arrangement by different composers, but composed by Nobuo. Same goes for the Amal'jaa Stronghold theme. It was composed by Nobuo, but rearranged by FFXIV's music team.

The rearrangements on Nobuo tracks by this team are fantastic, but that is because they have the world as a reference and not in just concept. I think it would do this game very well if they take the newly designed zones and give them to the music team to give the game a completely different feel. So many things about FFXIV in it's launch were not executed correctly even down to it's music. Some are beautiful pieces, but is it cohesive? Not at all. Now, the new team creating new tracks and arranging other Nobuo written ones are mending that. I think it's a great thing and should really be expanded upon.

[Zahak]

I am curious to see if the areas bgms will be updated along 2.0 release

[Scherwiz]

I am a music producer by trade (billboard charts... not video game)... and I say we are ruined by the trends of the industry
Game music has gone a lot more modern as of late. Yet the world of Eorzea doesn't really conjure up thoughts of electric guitars and drum machines
A lot of games music even uses rl songs in their soundtracks
The environments in this game are very basic... very back woods. which limits the composer greatly.
we've kind of been spoiled by the steam punk induced RPGs of the last 10-15 years.
Some of the environments in FFXIV are downright "Deliverance dueling banjos" worthy
as far as seeing concept art as opposed to actually being in game before you make the music....
How much of a desert do you really need to see? the first time I stepped into thanalan... at that moment I saw everything there was to see in the desert

Lastly... and this is very important.... How many hours have spent in Ul'dah? thanalan Desert? La Noscea? These songs will eventually annoy you no matter how good they are
I LOVE the Mor Dhona theme... but 8 hours a day of it would force me to mute the music....
I make songs 3 minutes and 30 seconds at a time... I can't imagine making a never ending loop of music

A compromise would be music that plays in each area changes based on the weather... or day and Nite
So there would be Thanalan Sunny daytime music and Thanalan Sandstorm Nite time music, for example.

Now I know who to blame for the completely awful music in the real world currently.