Bosch wfb 2002 user manual. 'XIV' refers to the original version of the game, while 'A Realm Reborn' refers to its reboot. The music for the was composed by, a regular contributor to the music of the series. Several other composers including and contributed music for updates to the game. The music for the game's reboot,, was primarily composed by Soken, who was the sound director for both releases of the game.

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Music from both releases of the game has been released in several albums, though no album contains music from both XIV and A Realm Reborn. A pair of containing a handful of selected tracks from XIV, Final Fantasy XIV: Battle Tracks and Final Fantasy XIV: Field Tracks, were released by in 2010 when XIV first launched. A soundtrack album titled Final Fantasy XIV - Eorzean Frontiers, containing most of the music that had been released by that point for XIV, was digitally released in 2012. A final soundtrack album for the original release of the game, Before Meteor: Final Fantasy XIV Original Soundtrack, was released in 2013 just before the launch of A Realm Reborn, and contains all of the music that was composed for XIV throughout its lifetime. The latest soundtrack album, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Original Soundtrack, was released in 2014, and contains all of the music for A Realm Reborn released up to that point. The soundtracks for both releases of the game were well received by critics.

Uematsu's mix of orchestral and rock tracks for XIV were praised, though the delayed release of a full album drew criticism. Soken's work on A Realm Reborn, including both his original tracks as well as themes carried over from XIV and previous games, were heavily praised by reviewers for the game. Music from the initial release of the game has been played in the international Distant Worlds series, and books of sheet music for piano arrangements of music from the game have been produced. Composer in 2006 The (MMORPG) was released in two versions: the original (live between 2010 and 2012), and its remake (, live since 2013). The music for XIV was composed by, who was the lead composer for the first ten main games and a contributor to the and soundtracks. Over the two years that XIV was active, several updates were made to the game, which included additional music composed by,,.

XIV was poorly received, and despite the updates, Square Enix decided to take the game offline for a time, and relaunch it with a new development team under a new name. Soken, the sound director for both releases, composed the soundtrack to A Realm Reborn. Prior to agreeing to create XIV 's score, Uematsu had already planned to compose ', the theme song for. Wanting him to fully focus on XIV, Square Enix asked XIII 's main composer to write the song instead. Thus, XIII was the first main-series Final Fantasy game soundtrack to not include Uematsu's work. Despite XIV being an MMO and thus a new genre for him, Uematsu treated it as any other video game project. Compared to his previous work within the series, Uematsu had considerable creative freedom while composing the soundtrack, because the rest of the production team did not fully envision beforehand how the soundtrack would sound or fit into the game.

Uematsu created a mixture of orchestral and pieces for the game's battle themes. There was a momentary crisis when he lost most of the data for his completed tracks and needed to hire a data recovery service. He worked as a freelance composer during the project for Square Enix, also composing the music for, a game from Final Fantasy creator. The game's theme song, 'Answers', was sung by Susan Calloway.

She was chosen by Uematsu, who had worked with her during the first Distant Worlds concert and was impressed by her singing abilities. For A Realm Reborn, Soken was the primary composer, in addition to reprising his XIV role as lead sound director. The primary goal given to the music team was to make the music true to the series.

Naoki Yoshida, the game's producer and director, told Soken to 'give [the team] something straightforward that anyone could identify as Final Fantasy, with an easy-to-understand, expressive orchestral sound'. Soken focused primarily on creating the soundtrack rather than his sound director role. He often created new tracks due to requests from staff members. As the game was developed and released in a shorter timeframe than the original release, Soken and the sound team were given less than a year to create both the music and the various sound effects for the game world. According to Soken, it felt like 'enough work for two full games in that time'. Unlike the freedom given Uematsu for XIV, most of the tracks for A Realm Reborn had specific guidelines, though Soken was allowed to 'do what [he liked]' for Titan's battle theme.