Ask Sound Director Masayoshi Soken Your Questions

[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.

[PangTong]

Is the music of XIV recorded using live instrumentation or virtual instruments on a computer?

[Iscah]

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.

I wanted to add to this because I was going to ask the same question, but particularly wanted to mention the Twinning - the music there is amazing and I love how fast-paced and intense it makes the dungeon feel, but going into the mid-level boss battles feels less exciting than the rest of the dungeon because of the generic music.

[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?

[Drax22]

Hi soken
Are there any plans to change the gunbreaker sound effects again? the new ones sound a little too week and blunt to lot of people myself included infact i think most people just preferred the old ones
Thanks!

[Drax22]

Hi soken

Is there any plans to add more orchestrion rolls that are the primals versions of songs (such as Heroes, Revenge Twofold etc)?

[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!

[Olgasm]

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

[ChiefRampancy]

There are many songs in the game that have wonderful vocals like Locus and eScape and many others, though I also wonder sometimes how these songs would like without the singing! Is there any chance of releasing instrumental/offvocal versions of songs?

[strigiformes]

Are there any samples you've worked with that you think would surprise people if we knew where they came from? Maybe some interesting foley work that would shock us?

I love the introductory sound effects in Shadows Withal, the Akademia Anyder theme, and I've actually heard those same "radio tuning" samples in other media. I was really surprised and excited to recognize them.