Ask Sound Director Masayoshi Soken Your Questions

[Iscah]

Could we have the option to turn off the default music in inn rooms and hear the normal city music, like we can for residential districts?

[Baxcel]

With the FF7 remake on it's way, could we see some FF7 songs added to the game? Like the random encounter battle theme or maybe one winged angel?

[AkaeiNox]

Hi Soken!
Outside of the gaming industry, who is your favorite modern musical composer? (Movies, theatre, singers)

[Vondra]

What inspired you to come up with the idea of Implementing «eternal wind» from FFIII into the Shadowbringers Theme

[Iscah]

What inspired you to come up with the idea of Implementing «eternal wind» from FFIII into the Shadowbringers Theme

That's not something you need to ask Soken, actually - the song is used directly in the FFIII-inspired Crystal Tower storyline already, and plays at the end of the final cutscene. So it's carrying on the same music into the next part of that plot thread.

[Zadist]

Can we please have the warring lanner music changed to second phase sephirot music?

[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?

My second question is piggybacking off of my first question.

After hearing a series of mixed opinions about the new combat sounds that came with Patch 5.1, would it be possible to ever add a toggle-feature that allows players to choose whether they would prefer to stick with just the original sounds only or have the new sounds added? Thank you!

[Avidria]

Are there any plans to expand the size of the house orchestrion? There are too many good songs to fit in that tiny playlist

[Harmonea]

Mr. Soken, you do fantastic work with leitmotifs and re-stylings of other songs. I especially love "Shadows Withal." What is your favorite leitmotif? Is there any leitmotif that you found difficult to use in a particular style?

[Ryoutoshi]

Can we get a FFXV style MP3 player?

What were the themes you tried to portray the most in ShadowBringers' expansion theme?