Development of the album began in summer of 2015. It was planned to be released through Materia Collective under the title "Synthetic Origins: A Final Fantasy IV 25 Year Anniversary Tribute Album" but ultimately was released as a free download via tssf's YouTube channel. The arrangement intends to recreate what the Final Fantasy IV soundtrack would have sounded like had it used arranged instrumentation similar to that of the "Final Fantasy Mix" soundtrack released by Nobuo Uematsu.

Track Origins:

01-53,67 FINAL FANTASY IV
54-56 Unreleased tracks from FINAL FANTASY IV MINIMUM ALBUM (N09D-004)
57,64 Original tracks composed by Mark Reichwein and Mathew Valente
58,65 Original tracks composed by Mathew Valente
59,66 FINAL FANTASY III
60 FINAL FANTASY V
61 FINAL FANTASY VI
62 FINAL FANTASY VII
63 FINAL FANTASY VIII

Track 57 – Battle for the Planet (Original) by Mark Reichwein and Mathew Valente
"This track is featured on the album 'Boss Battles for the Soul' by Kyo (Mark Reichwein). He approached me one day back in 2014 to help him create a song that sounded like it was playing from FFIV. He gave me a song he wrote, I retooled it from scratch and added the second half of the song (where it starts to use the main theme). It turned out great. This is the arranged version of the song."

Track 58 – Theme of Despair (Original) by Mathew Valente
"So this is a bit of a derivative work made to sound like a sadder version of Theme of Love, and Lena's theme from FFV. You can hear the influence in the bass line from Lena's theme as well as some other influences from Aerith's theme from FFVII. I also used some legato techniques that Nobuo Uematsu used in FFVI and VII's soundtracks."

Synthesizers/ROMplers Used:

-Kurzweil K1000 PX 1 and 2
-Kurzweil K1200 Pro 1
-Kurzweil K2000 (Only for a few sounds)
-Roland U220
-E-MU Proteus 1 and 2
-Sampled versions of E-MU Emulator sounds (Played back in Kontakt 5.6.5)
-Sampled versions of Roland W30/S550/S770 sounds (Played back in Kontakt 5.6.5)
-Alesis D4
-Korg M1 VST