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

[DamianFatale]

Will we ever see a Doman Poison arc similar to the one in Final Fantasy VI? I really hope my Doman friends are save and sound.

[DamianFatale]

Ya, im sure the sound designer will get right on that. -_-

...did you even read the post? Lol

Oh no, I did misread. My glasses recently broke, and I have the flu. My bad. I’ll post a sound question.

Will we ever get Morin Khuurs for bard performances?

[MuseTraveller]

Mr Soken, I love the soft piano night themes in Stormblood especially The Lochs!
Which one of them was most enjoyable to write?

[Commander_Justitia]

Is it possible that we can change audio output without restarting the game?

[Commander_Justitia]

I really like fights with voice over actors. I was really sad to see the kefka cutscene without one when I had to read what he says instead, then a few days later I play the new primal byakko extreme with a voiceactor... A giggling evil voice like in the trailer would have been so awesome for this raidtier end.

Could more raidstyle fights besides primals have voice acting if you drop german and french voiceactor in future fights and just stay with the english and japanese ones?

[Vidu]

This might not qualify as a real question, but since I just bought the scroll for the orchestrion and re-discovered this beautiful, beautiful piece of music: How dare you compose something so wonderful like "Fragments of Forever"?!
I almost started to cry listening to it yesterday and mainly wanted to say "Thanks!/Domo Arigato!" here!

It does remind me a bit of a piece from FFX, but I cant pinpoint which one - so maybe as a real question: How often do you take inspiration from earlier FF-games (or other games)? Beside the obvious re-arrangments for things like Sigma etc. when its clear that the whole raid is a reference.

[Kuroyasha]

May we have Midgarsormr's theme, from when your first meet him as the final boss in The Keeper of the Lake dungeon, play for the Midgarsormr mount? I think it would give a more epic and intense feeling to riding Midgarsormr.

[Ghastly]

Will Eorzea's playable races get a music theme one day? (idea!)

[Squintina]

Would it ever be possible to go back to ARR to re-voice cutscenes so that the voice actor changes are less noticeable. Would it also be possible to add more voice acting to important story cutscenes that did not have any?

I realize ARR is "old" content, but all new players must suffer through it, as well as older players making alts, if they do not wish to pay for a jump potion and this would make it more enjoyable. This is something rather unique to FF14 as most other games do not have such extreme locking to old story quests.

I personally would probably roll an alt or at the very least go to the inn to enjoy them voiced.

[Squintina]

Music is sometimes picked from other main FF games, and popular side games like Tactics.

Would it be possible to pick from less popular FF side games as well, such as Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles?

While our numbers might be lower, fans of the lesser liked titles do love these games dearly.