The Japanese Atlus webpage has a note from the P4 composer. Here is the terrible translation, courtesy of ATLAS (translation software). The things in brackets were left untranslated... ( I agree with Kibble: somebody, please translate it!)
http://www.atlusnet.jp/topic/detail/552
No more Lotus Juice confirmed!
I have no idea what a lot of means, but it seems like the number of new tracks is roughly equivalent to P3's soundtrack, which kind of sucks. However, there might be reused tracks or rearrangements from older games that aren't being counted.
52 tracks is the number of songs on the vanilla P3 soundtrack IF you count the six parts of Tartarus as one medley (which is Interstice of Time gets counted on the FES soundtrack)
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MY OWN INTERPRETATION!
-Release is two weeks away, and I want to discuss the soundtrack.
-I composed over forty new tracks for the game, though some were (I HAVE NO IDEA)
-Something about arrangements.
-We got a new singer, though I did like what the P3 vocalists did.
-Some people don't like the battle theme, but I think that is just because it isn't what you expected.
-'Memories of You' was very popular from P3, and we have another wonderful song for P4.
None of the rest makes any sense...
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2008.06. 25 Miscellaneous notes Vol.36 of hobby of Meguro Masashi Meguro
Hello Meguro.
Even the sale of persona 4 became two another weeks.
There is my turn's turning to the sale even round the game this volume sale for two another weeks the inclusion as many as two another times of this time this time, and I want to touch about the music of the game this volume though the story of persona 4 original soundtrack was told a little last time.
40 tunes or more as a whole were written though some the music of persona 4 was open to the public from promotion.
Not a small little bit but when there is some arrangement difference or our Kita [**] and Kozuka include the made jingle etc. , feeling compared with persona 3. the number of tunes of soundtrack (52)
The person of the sung singer is 'Hirata [kokorozahoko]' persona 3 similar -san this time though the song one has been taken while playing a game.
It had a hard time really though it looked for the person with good singing voice suitable for because of and persona 4 whose Kawamura -san and Lotus -san of persona 3 are wonderful skill as a singers and skill as a singers.
Please expect the because of thought to be able to listen to a wonderful song this time.
This tune can be heard a little by the promotion image etc. though users to whom music feels uneasy think that the tune of the combat usually feels uneasy perhaps.
Please it thinks the heard thing not to be able to have done yet through the whole even if it says and buy and hear the product version by all means.
Maybe, was the introduction different from your imagination c.
'Your memory' of persona 3 was big the echo from users, thought by Komori and me of writing songs that I was very glad, and was able to make persona 4 from Komori and the combination in Meguro for the ending.
In the tune, nobody is still [kyokutotono] in 3 and fes without this time at the present stage of the because of that has not gone out at all in promotion etc. though thought by nobody that it cannot imagine it.
Please hear the game this volume by all means here clearing to the last minute.
Laughter, and poetry turns over and [sugo]s it by being [yo] while recording putting [toite] and this time though said, it is looked back on the this direction and is "Ulu [ttokimasunee;]" that the engineer -san of [sabi] to the end of [**ri] ..seeming the cry complete I at that time of the by the way and not raising the [nattete] face.. ..(.. ..the quality of) tune...
(especially the 2nd)
..a variety of some.. in the this approximately this time when Music Oh dear of persona 4 begins also to write.
Should that story either touch about the tune and August about the field and the event, etc. next time?
The thing of the Akasaka blitz of the example c It prints by the lot reservation beginning on Friday this week.
The what to do etc. when reserving and not coming at all.
- "Persona 4" question and message recruitment on a large scale inside
It questions "Persona 4" hot, and the recruitment on a large scale of a hot message now.
Being possible to contribute is a Please from here.
Meguro Masashi
"Persona 3" and "Three persona Fez" sound composer