David composed the music for over 40 NES titles, which is probably more than any other NES composer. While some of Rare's NES games did use this feature, Wise never used it himself.ĭuring Rare's NES development, they usually handled arcade conversions, so Wise had to take the challenges of learning the original arcade's music by ear and replicate a good 8-bit conversion which he was always successful in doing. Wise has said that he was confined to the two square waves, triangle, and noise channels of the NES' RP2A03, as the company didn't have the space to use the DPCM channel's sound sampling capabilities. To create music for the NES, Wise had to learn to program the music using hexadecimal numbers for notation, as was required by Rare's sound driver.
The first game Wise worked on was also the first NES game developed outside of Japan, Slalom. This, coincidentally, was an identical fashion as to how Takeaki Kunimoto became a video game musician. Chris and Tim were mesmerized by his music so instead of buying the computer, they offered Wise a job at their company, Rare, as a sound composer, and Wise accepted their offer. While David was doing so, he was playing his own compositions. One day, Rare's founders Chris and Tim Stamper came into the music shop and asked Wise to demonstrate the computer for them. He demonstrated the computer to many customers which led to the sales of many of them. Later, Wise started working at a music shop, working in the drum department until a Yamaha CX5 arrived at the store. After buying the drumkit, he joined a band. When he was 14, he had a paper route and used his earnings to save up for a drumkit. He also learned how to play the trumpet around then and eventually joined a brass band.
However, he still received piano lessons. He found out beforehand that he could learn music by ear. Due to fairness, he had to wait until he was his brother's age until he could get piano lessons. Wise's passion for music started around when he was 8 years old and his older brother was taking piano lessons. His best known song is probably Aquatic Ambiance from Donkey Kong Country (SNES), which he says took him an entire month to write. He is known for composing music to many popular games such as the Donkey Kong Country, Battletoads, and Wizards & Warriors series. David Wise is an English video game musician, and is one of the most popular ones in the industry.
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