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| '''Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius''', also known as Arguru (sometimes Argu), was a prolific ] ] and electronic musician, responsible for such applications as ] and ], and the early development of ]. | '''Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius''', also known as Arguru (sometimes Argu), was a prolific ] ] and electronic musician, responsible for such applications as ] and ], and the early development of ]. He started company ] and was later hired by ] and involved in development of Deckadance and ]. Arguru died in a car accident on June the 3rd, 2007.<ref name="hispasonic"></ref> | ||
| ==Notable projects== | ==Notable projects== | ||
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Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius, also known as Arguru (sometimes Argu), was a prolific music software programmer and electronic musician, responsible for such applications as NoiseTrekker and Directwave, and the early development of Deckadance. He started company discoDSP and was later hired by Image-Line and involved in development of Deckadance and FL Studio 7. Arguru died in a car accident on June the 3rd, 2007.
Notable projects
- Aodix is a digital audio workstation program which is advertised as "the ultimate bridge between tracking and sequencing". Aodix brought several innovative technologies to trackers such as pattern zoom and subtick timing. Version 4 of Aodix was released as freeware, previous versions were available for $75.
- Deckadance is an software for DJ software released by Image-Line. Arguru was involved in creating the first version of Deckadance.
- discoDSP is a software company developing VST plugins such as Discovery (synth), Discovery Pro, Vertigo, Highlife, Phantom. Discovery is notable for being the first commercial VSTi plugin also released on Linux platform.
- NoiseTrekker was a Windows tracker with MIDI, internal synth, 2 TB303s and DSP support featuring a classic amiga-style interface. NoiseTrekker code was used as a basis for first version of Renoise, one of the most modern and actively developed music trackers.
- Psycle is a complete modular music creation environment with tracker interface. Versions up to 1.0 were created by Arguru. After that it was released into public domain and the development was continued by other people. Current versions are released under GNU GPL and available on all major platforms.
Death
On June 3rd, 2007 at 18:45 the car of Arguru went off the road on AP-7, near Benalmádena (Málaga) killing him in the accident.
References
- ^ Hispasonic - Fallece Juan Antonio Argüelles, "Arguru"
- KVR: Arguru Software Aodix
- Sonicspot - NoiseTrekker
- Renoise InDepth - Arguru died in car accident