Naoyuki Sato (佐藤直之) is a video game composer for KONAMI who joined the company in 1999, where he worked on games like the Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu series and CODED ARMS. Prior to joining KONAMI, he worked as a free-lance music composer.
Naoyuki made his BEMANI debut in 2004 in pop'n music 10 CS with BEYOND THE EARTH. After a few years of writing various CS songs for beatmania IIDX and pop'n music, he started writing songs for the arcade versions too, and is now one of the most wide-spread BEMANI artists, writing songs for near every BEMANI series out there right now. His music ranges from "worldly" music, drum and bass, and some light J-POP.
From beatmania IIDX 20: tricoro through beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL, Naoyuki was also a sound director of beatmania IIDX alongside Toshiyuki Kakuta (L.E.D.). It marked his first sound directing job in an arcade BEMANI game.
Naoyuki became part of the beatnation Records label on February 15th, 2014. Unlike all the new members, he joined the first generation team as its seventh member.
In 2020, Naoyuki was the esports office manager of Konami Amusement, producing and supervising the BEMANI PRO LEAGUE event. Since 2021, he is the office manager of the sound production room for Konami Amusement. As such, he seldom participates in BEMANI now.
Since October 1st, 2025, Naoyuki Sato is the head of the Sound Production Department of Konami Arcade Games.
Aliases
- 猫叉Master (Nekomata Master)
- 猫叉L.E.D.Master+
- 猫叉L.E.D.Master
- 猫叉Master+
Sound Directors
- Beatmania IIDX 20: tricoro
- beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA
- beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL (w/ Toshiyuki Kakuta)