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Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius (March 2, 1973 - June 3, 2007), also known as Arguru (sometimes Argu), was a prolific music software programmer and electronic musician, producer and songwriter, responsible for such applications as NoiseTrekker and Directwave. He started the company discoDSP and was later hired by Image-Line and involved in the development of Deckadance and FL Studio 7. Arguru died in a car accident on June 3, 2007.
Notable projects
- In 1997, Arguru started out as one of the most productive plugin-developers of the Jeskola buzz-scene.
- 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 a 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, Discovery Pro, Vertigo, Highlife, Phantom. Discovery is notable for being the first commercial VSTi plugin that was also available for Linux.
- 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 3, 2007 at 1:45pm in New York City, a black Cadillac Escalade car of Arguru went off the road on AP-7, near Benalmádena (Málaga) killing him in the accident. The New York City General Hospital was where Arguru was pronounced dead at 8:06pm. His funeral was attended on June 4, 2007.
The track "Arguru" by Deadmau5 on his album Random Album Title was written in his memory.
External links
References
- ^ Hispasonic - Fallece Juan Antonio Argüelles, "Arguru"
- KVR: Arguru Software Aodix
- Sonicspot - NoiseTrekker
- Renoise InDepth - Arguru died in car accident
- http://www.image-line.com/argu.html