Kazuo Sawa
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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 (Digital Sound Products), 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.
Music Development
FDS
He used a sound driver which was programmed by Hiroshi Yamazaki and wrote the music in assembly.
He later used a sound driver by Michiya Hirasawa.
GB
In Technos, he used Michiya Hirasawa's sound driver. For Money Idol Exchanger, he used a sound driver by Masayoshi Koyama.
GBC
He used a sound driver which was programmed by Michiya Hirasawa.
GBA
He used Nintendo's MP2K sound driver.
GEN
For Mazin Saga, he used a sound driver which was programmed by Hiromitsu Shioya.
NES
He used a sound driver which was programmed by Hiroshi Yamazaki and wrote the music in assembly. For Totally Rad, he used a sound driver which was possibly written by Masayoshi Koyama For Renegade, he used Shouei System's sound driver. In Technos, he used Michiya Hirasawa's sound driver.l
Gameography
Links
- w.atwiki.jp/gamemusicbest100/pages/2853.html - Atwiki.jp (Japanese).
