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

[Akava]

I really like how Omega: Deltascape and Omega: Sigmascape have different boss music. Will you continue to make new battle music once Omega is done? Hearing Coil and Alexander music for 2 years was rough.

[DrWho2010]

Just wondering as sound director was it your decision or Yoshi-P's choice to have mounts have certain music? For instance I would have naturally assumed that the Twintania mount would play "Thunderer" yet it only plays regular mount music. The Easter Egg mount should play "Papaya", and the Starlight Bear mount should play the Christmas fate music you used it in. The ADS mounts i would have preferred play "Spiral". Is there some kind of memory limitation which prevents more variety of mount music? or is this a directorial choice? Also I'm hoping as you're the guest in this live letter that you will announce the next soundtrack for 4.0-4.2 music for sale. If not, any plans to release it soon?

Thanks Soken-sama! I love you!

[Cobheran]

I would like to know what your process is when developing new tracks. Are there any genres of music you listen to for inspiration?

[Namikaze-Kirito]

Not really FF related, but how did you react to players putting you and Yoshida into Monster Hunter World?

[Hezkezl]

Can The Falcon's mount music be changed to "Searching for Friends"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96wnpkcZIYw It's a very appropriate piece of music for that mount, and I'm very disappointed that it wasn't the music for it

(Also, any update on that Monk music from 1.x I asked you about on Twitter? I know you're an incredibly busy person, and we all appreciate the tons of hours you've spent creating music for this game. I'm just mildly curious if you stumbled across it yet! https://twitter.com/Kittahsmash/stat...74169016090624 )

[Altanas]

For the next Omega raid series, which Final Fantasy music track are you listening to?

[Altanas]

Why does the Wandering Minstrel not have his own theme? And why hasn't Yoshi-P realised that?

[Chuq]

Mr Soken, do you usually have enough time to compose and edit the music as much as you want, or do you sometimes end up having to rush to completion or even scrap planned tracks?

[Chuq]

If the workload on Soken is too much, are or have there been plans to bring in another composer? I love Soken's music and it is incredibly versatile, but sometimes I'm left feeling that some of the content, especially story and battle, could use more new music instead of the same old tracks that have been heard many, many times. It takes away from the impact.

[Chuq]

I love musicals. If you, Mr Soken, were given chance to create that type of music for FFXIV, would you want to do it? Maybe it could be in a side quest, or a promotional music video...