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Revision as of 16:32, 10 January 2019
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Kazuo Sawa is a Japanese composer, sound designer and programmer. He attended the Tokai University. While in college, he was playing in a band and then started work at Technos Japan Corp. While he mainly composed music for them, he seemed to have also been a freelance composer because of his previous work for HAL Laboratory, Jaleco, and Infinity, mainly for the Famicom. In 1993, he started DSP, a company which specializes in game audio. In November 2001, he founded the Tokai University Jazz Study Group OB Club with one of his colleagues. He is currently working as well freelance composer.
Music Development
FDS
He used a sound driver which was programmed by Hiroshi Yamazaki and wrote the music in assembly. Unfortunately, the programmed FDS channel is out of tune from the 2A03.
GB
In Technos, he used Michiya Hirasawa's sound driver. For Money Idol Exchanger, he used a sound driver by Masayoshi Koyama.
GEN
For Mazin Saga, he used a sound driver which was programmed by Hiromitsu Shioya.
NES
Kazuo wrote his own sound driver and wrote the music in assembly. For Totally Rad, he used a sound driver which was possibly written by Masayoshi Koyama. For Paris-Dakar Rally Special and Elysion, he used a sound driver by Hiroshi Yamazaki. For Renegade, he used Shouei System's sound driver. In Technos, he used Michiya Hirasawa's sound driver.
Super Pig and Mimi Pro. stole his driver and used in own FDS games.
SMS
For Renegade, he used Iku Mizutani's sound driver.