Ask Sound Director Masayoshi Soken Your Questions

[Noitems]

Are there any music genres you want to try yet in XIV that you haven't done?

I'd personally love to see you take a stab at something like Cuban or even something like Future Funk for a dungeon. I think that was be absolutely fantastic and fun to try!

[Misu]

Hello Soken!

Some time ago, the SE Music discord sent out a question there channel "would anyone be interested in a Primals World tour?" is there any more info about this??
Thank you for taking the time to answer questions look forward to all your music and fun!!!

[Kuutamo]

Soken said on twitter to ask him everything when mentioned I had a lot so here goes

1: SE music's discord asked if anyone was interested in a Primals world tour. Any more information on this?

2: Will the newest Symphony come to the EU at some point?

3: Can we persuade SE Music to release the soundtracks on vinyl?

4: Was there any piece of music created that you had to fight to make it into the game?

5: Which song is your favourite to play with on stage The Primals, and which to hear live by orchestra?

Thank you
Aelrindyl

[DrWho2010]

Now that Uematsu is somewhat returned to health, will you or Yoshi P be asking him to do the theme song for 6.0 again? don't get me wrong I loved your themes for 5.0 - i'm just curious.

[Debassak]

Big fan of your works, Soken!

1. You're obviously a man who likes to do experimental things, evidenced by eScape, Locus, Rise and other such songs. Given the opportunity, what would you also like to experiment on song-wise?

2. Many of your songs are influenced by other bands, like with eScape. What do you usually like to use for inspiration as well in coming up with songs?

3. If you think you have one in the game right now, what is your magnum opus and why?

4. Seiryu didn't have vocals in his song! Was there a reason why of the three trials that Seiryu was purely instrumental?

5. If there was one song you could have the chance to work on and put your spin on in an ideal crossover, what song would you do?

Thank you for your work and time!

[HyoMinPark]

Hi, Soken!

First of all, I want to say I’m a huge fan of your work—the Shadowbringers OST is amazing, and I can’t wait to see the rest of the music added in future patches!

As for my question, I apologize if it is something you may not be able to answer. Recently, with Patch 5.1, new combat sounds were added to all the voices for each race. I was wondering what prompted this decision to add in more combat sounds?

[Syliani]

Thank you all for your hard work! (お疲れ様 でした!), But to the point, I and a lot of Final Fantasy 6 fans were severely broken-hearted over the Magitek Predator not having the background music from FF6 where it was originated. Would there be a chance to set it's BGM to the original roots? Thank you so much for hearing me.

P.S.
PLEASE More Chocobo Race locations! Also, can we breed a Gold Chocobo?

[MajinkenSouga]

Gunbreaker's explosion sound effects sound great, but their non explosion sound effects such as weapon swings sound a bit off. It sounds more like a blunt weapon than a blade. Are there any consideration for adjustments?

[ToppeHatte]

I know typically raid mounts are given music representing the final fight of that tier, but Titan's theme on the Skyslipper doesn't feel super appropriate. Can we possibly get the mount music changed to something like Blue Fields instead?

[Phydeaux]

While I understand (and appreciate) the implied concept behind the first choice of a dungeon's theme usually being a variation on its respective zone's theme, I was torn between "love and bummer" regarding Mt. Gulg's theme not being a homage to _the_ Mt. Gulg's theme from FFI, which is a song pretty much as memorable as Matoya's theme - specially taking into account your *stellar* work and care when dealing with songs from other titles. It was also featured in FFIX and it was among the best tracks there too. When I first saw Alphinaud announce the name of the mountain, I got chills just thinking how you'd interpret it. But then, while the theme is a very fitting pumped-up variation on Kholusia's motif, it wasn't as much Mt. Gulg as it could've been.

The question is, given the opportunity to give Mt. Gulg's theme a try (if, for instance, we ever get a Hard Mode version of it, or a solo instance of some kind), won't you please consider giving it a go? Or even if we don't, please consider nagging Yoshi for an in-lore way, as an orchestrion from the Dwarf beast tribe quest prize pool or something!