Gridania music.

[Reinheart]

One part that I'm bit confused is for ARR sound tracks if Nobuo-san is working on some of them or it's all Soken and others since I remember reading Nobuo-san only agreed to doing FFXIV was if and only he can compose all of the music himself. (Originally) and all the new music since the team change I haven't really seen Nobuo-san's 'new' stuff yet.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

One part that I'm bit confused is for ARR sound tracks if Nobuo-san is working on some of them or it's all Soken and others since I remember reading Nobuo-san only agreed to doing FFXIV was if and only he can compose all of the music himself. (Originally) and all the new music since the team change I haven't really seen Nobuo-san's 'new' stuff yet.

He's not doing any of the music. Square holds the rights to the pieces he wrote for FFXIV 1.0 and they have since been re-arranged by their new group of composers. Also, when I say re-arranged, I don't mean placing tracks in different areas. I mean in musical composition terms [Example of this is Zahar'ak Stronghold]. Though I know they have literally arranged music and implemented them in different areas.

So far, the tracks are completely new and written by SOKEN. If you hear any early 1.0 tracks, they will either be Nobuo tracks remastered (because the original sound quality is just horrid) or Nobuo tracks with a re-arrangement by SOKEN and the sound team. Nobuo is long gone from this project and I can't say I blame him. They had him compose the soundtrack off of concept and not seeing the zones themselves which gave some of the game's areas a weird feel and it wasn't cohesive. The tracks were all over the place.

A completely new soundtrack is what this game needs to tie it together. That doesn't mean they need to completely trash the Nobuo tracks, they just need to edit them with instrumentation that fits with their new soundtrack.