Ask Sound Director Masayoshi Soken Your Questions

[Zhexos]

We're pleased to announce that the fifty-sixth installment of the Letter from the Producer LIVE will feature Sound Director Masayoshi Soken as a guest! The show is set to take place on Friday, December 13, at 8:30 p.m. (PST) / 11:30 p.m. (EST) / Saturday, 14 December, at 4:30 (GMT).

In this thread, we'd like you to post questions you may have related to the sounds & music of FINAL FANTASY XIV, or even general questions for Soken!

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* Details regarding the Letter from the Producer LIVE: North America/Europe
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[GAMERG0D]

Can the default song on the Typhon mount be changed to "A Battle Decisively" from Sigmascape?

[Constics]

What is your favorite song that you have made?

[Mayfirerose]

I, like many, am a huge fan of all the music in Shadowbringers. What was the most difficult song to work on in Shadowbringers? And how did you motivate yourself to finish it?

[Chimeric]

Will the full version of "Phantoms on the Lake" ever make an appearance in-game in the future? The opening part of the song is already in the game as "Persistence" and is used for a lot of dungeon mini-boss fights nowadays, but I can't recall ever hearing the full version from 1.x used anywhere in the game.

[Theodric]

What sound effect used in-game has been the most difficult to create?

[Chimeric]

Roughly how often do unused versions of particular songs make it back into the game later to be used in different places? For example, an early version of battle music for Nidhogg ended up becoming a secondary end-boss theme for the last dungeons of Heavensward, and I believe the theme for Lakeland used in the earliest previews for Shadowbringers was brought back as dungeon music for one of the latest patches.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Secret of Mana or Chrono Trigger Music

What would it take to get musical licensing from other Squaresoft games of the 90s, like Chrono Trigger or Secret of Mana?

[EtnaD]

is it possible to add into game a portable orchestrion? So many great songs are wasted

[Commander_Justitia]

Can we get more variety in the future to background music during quests and boss music (before endboss bosses)? Most of the pieces are from ARR times, they got very repetitive. It saddens me to hear the great new pieces of e.g. dungeon music to be interrupted by a very well known ARR boss theme.