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[[Hidenori Kotera|Cody]] sounds directs the series, while [[Yoshitaka Nishimura|DJ YOSHITAKA]] serves as the head producer.<br>  

[[Sota Fujimori]] provides all of the games' background musics.

While at first the song list mostly consisted of original songs or licenses involving VOCALOID, later in the life-cycle of the first game the artist selection greatly expanded thanks to what it is supposed to be the most important pillar of the series - the FLOOR section.

''SOUND VOLTEX FLOOR'' refers to the group of competitions posted in its website where Japan-based artists can participate in, with a chance of their songs or remixes appearing in the games. Music contests have their own themes and rules, such as remixing a selection of an artist's songs or using synthesized vocals. There are also contests related to designing jackets for brand-new songs or to replace pre-existing ones in the game.<br>

Thanks to the FLOOR contests (and also to the presence of Touhou Project arrangements), the game quickly gained a lot of success, prompting the production team to focus as much as possible on these in the future. Contest winners may also be invited to provide original songs in SOUND VOLTEX itself or in other BEMANI games (most notably, 5 of the 7 [[beatnation Records|beatnation RHYZE]] members debuted in BEMANI via SOUND VOLTEX FLOOR).

From April 16th to May 15th, 2015, the first SOUND VOLTEX FLOOR contests (for original songs and appeal cards) exclusive to the rest of Asia were held. However, delays in communication between KONAMI, Korean distributor UNIANA and participating artists have resulted in the songs and appeal cards not being added to the game more than a year after submissions ended. (On December 21st, 2016, UNIANA stated on Twitter that it has sent out confirmation emails to all winning artists.)

Unlike other BEMANI games, regular soundtracks are not released for the SOUND VOLTEX series. Instead, soundtracks tend to focus on one or a few FLOOR contests. Listed below are soundtracks currently available:

** Released on July 30th, 2014 (released early on May 11th, 2014, at the ''Reitaisai 11'' doujin event)

** Contains all the songs from the [http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/sdvx/sv/p/floor/remix/04/index.html Touhou Project Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Remix Contest], plus 2 new arrangements.

** Released on March 4th, 2015

** Released on February 24th, 2016

** Contains selected FLOOR songs from SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH and SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection- as voted by the community, plus 5 new original songs.

** Released on November 23rd, 2016 (released early on October 16th, 2016, at the ''Autumn Reitaisai 2016'' doujin event)

** Contains all the songs from the Touhou Project [http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/sdvx/sv/p/floor/remix/07/index.html Perfect Cherry Blossom] and [http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/sdvx/sv/p/floor/remix/05/index.html Double Dealing Character] remix contests, plus 3 new arrangements.

** Released on July 21st, 2017, only obtainable on select arcades for 800 VP each

Other original SOUND VOLTEX songs may appear in soundtracks for multi-game BEMANI events.

Recently, SOUND VOLTEX's sound direction has been increasingly focusing on KONAMI original songs made by the most popular FLOOR winners. SOUND VOLTEX also became the first BEMANI game series to have licensed BMS songs (BEMANI Simulation files), and with SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN, it will also be getting songs from major doujin labels such as [[HARDCORE TANO*C]], [[S2TB Recording]], and ''C.H.S''.

* The SOUND VOLTEX series is the first to utilize the [[eAMUSEMENT]] Participation system, which requires game cabinets to always be connected to the eAMUSEMENT network.