Who's doing the music now?

[Teuciont]

Is it Naoshi? Or is it still Nobuo? Has music such as the strongholds been in since the start hidden away? Or was this the new composer's work?

[Dragonheart]

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

I think all the new music are by new composers, there is their music blog somewhere, where they show their new music samples.. And Nobuo Uematsu name, isnt showed anywhere there..

And sorry for what i'm going to say, but i'm not gonna miss him, cause he didn't a really great work on FFXIV tracks.. Only some of the originals one are worth of him (even if "rumors" says that he worked on tracks, without seeing the game zones, battle, etc. )

[Rydin]

Bear Mcreary

[Teuciont]

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

I think all the new music are by new composers, there is their music blog somewhere, where they show their new music samples.. And Nobuo Uematsu name, isnt showed anywhere there..

And sorry for what i'm going to say, but i'm not gonna miss him, cause he didn't a really great work on FFXIV tracks.. Only some of the originals one are worth of him (even if "rumors" says that he worked on tracks, without seeing the game zones, battle, etc. )

As much as I respect Nobuo, I just don't think his style is suited for anything but important themes. Such as zone themes and that sort of thing. Now, if he didn't even know what he was composing for, then I suppose you'd have to give him a lot of slack. I'm just hoping the new composer is in fact Naoshi.

[Eruantien]

They are being made by the music team at square enix, so several people, with the odd music maybe being contracted to Nobuo at his record label dog ear records.

The reason Nobuo doesn't appear in the square enix music page is because he isn't part of the square-enix team anymore, and hasn't been for a long time.

[Genz]

Naoshi Mizuta (FFXI, FFXIII-2)
Ryo Yamazaki (FF Crystal Bearers)
Tsuyoshi Sekito (Last Remnant)
(source : credits at title screen)

[Holy_Dragoon]

^ sad truth there. He's still golden in my book. The best tracks he made for XIV are barely used, no one hears them, and some are not even used in the game yet.

Don't get me wrong I am really liking Naoshi's work lately, but Uematsu has a place in my heart

[Andrien]

Give Nobuo some credit. He had only concept art to work with, and we don't even hear the best tracks yet. (IMO)

I think if he's given the opportunity to have a walkthrough of the game now or in 2.0 I think he might produce some amazing stuff. I'd say give him that chance Yoshi-P

[Avraym]

Leave Nobuo Alone! :P

[Rydin]

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.