Ask Sound Director Masayoshi Soken Your Questions

[Kyser96]

Hello Soken, I love your work. I just have one question.

In 5.01, Gunbreaker sound effects were changed from nice sounding sharp swings to blunt, club-like sounds. Are there any plans to change or revert this job's sound effects, or at least is there any explanation of why they were changed in the first place?

[BleuMage]

There are some absolutely amazing songs in FFXIV 1.0, such as "Tears for Mor Dhona," which was repurposed for Palace of the Dead. I miss hearing it in Mor Dhona itself, though. I rarely go into the Palace of the Dead, so I almost never get to hear it. I was wondering, would you ever consider allowing users to choose alternate BGM for areas that used to have different songs tied to them? Or do you feel this would intrude on the area's identity?

[Ultima5]

Are there any other composers, singers or artists that Soken would like to collaborate with, either for Final Fantasy XIV music, arrangements, or his own independant projects?

[Gula]

There are about 6 (or maybe more) versions of Titan's theme now. Is he your favorite Primal to work with or was it hard to pick just one theme?

[Evane]

Is it possible to have a UI element that shows the name of the track playing now?

The game has an amazing sound track but names always elude me.

Another question, is it possible to improve the audio quality of the orchestrion music?

Thanks and keep up the amazing work!

[Thotiana]

Hi, With 5.0 we seemed to get an increase in quests that were voice acted. Is there any intention to build upon this? It seems far to many quests are only text. Also will we ever get more then a "mmhmm" from our characters?

[Sigvarr_Ulfbeard]

Hi Soken! Big fan btw,

I wondered if you would consider changing the BGM for ranked feast/pvp mounts to “culling time” from feast and such, just for variety.

Thank you and keep up the good work!

[Michizane]

Any chance we can get a Death Metal trial theme?

[Olgasm]

Answers! There has been various fan theories behind the lyrics, would love to hear exclusively from producers.

[sdmax300]

Firstly I would like to thank you for your amazing compositions providing what I feel like is the backbone to my experience playing this game.

My only question is: will there ever be an orchestrion roll for Order Yet Undeciphered, the Azys Lla field theme? I got super excited to get into centurio hunts when I learned you could get faded sheets for their respective field themes from them, but that one [my favourite track in the game, personally] is missing!