KHIII/FF Versus XIII Secrets of the Night - Somnus edit

This edit has been weighing on my mind since the KHIII secret ending "Yozora" released nearly 2 years ago, I'm sure we all know by now that the piano that comes in after the "Another Side" section of this track is a clear reference to Somnus, and by extension Versus XIII, and that (and the ReMind secret episode) has some pretty wicked implications for Nomuras's plans for the future of the series, and so I've long had the idea in my head to just combine the tracks and have them play together, basically for an extended gag.

I was surprised to find this edit was much more difficult than i initially imagined, compositionally everything works fine of course, but the sonic quality of each of these tracks is a bit more different than i realized, particularly the timbre of the piano as it goes from one track to the next and back again, Somnus has a bit of a cleaner, more crisp sound, with each note taking up its own space, whereas the KHIII track has a bit of a foggy sounding effect over it to make it more mysterious and whimsical, as well as a more spacious, less pinpoint accurate mix, I tried my best to alleviate the effects of this, but it's definitely still noticeable.


There are a couple of decisions I thought made sense while editing this but when listening to the export don't quite produce the effect i had hoped for, overall I think i could improve it on a retake but I try to upload these sorts of things on my first attempt to prevent me from getting stuck, but who knows, maybe I'll have a second go at it and suddenly solve all the problems!

Music composed and arranged by Yoko Shimomura
Somnus orchestrated by Kaoru Wada

Versus XIII high resolution logo from: https://www.deviantart.com/eldi13/art...