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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.
Biography
Juan Rius was born on November , 1978 in Málaga, Spain. In 1997, Arguru started out as one of the most productive plugin-developers of the Jeskola buzz-scene. In 2000, he and Francisco Cobos Palomo (known as "Freaky") began mixing as a psytrance duo in Malaga under the name Alienated Buddha. They released the album Inpsyde on Out of Orion in February 2002.
Arguru founded the software company discoDSP in July 2002. In December 2002 he released his product NightShine. The company is known for 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. He left the company in 2004 to begin working for Image-Line. While at Image-Line, he contributed to the development of FL Studio and was the primary programmer for the DJ software Deckadance, released in 2007.
Other 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.
- 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 18;45 hours, Arguru's car went off the road on the AP-7, near the city of Benalmádena (Málaga, Spain) killing him in the accident. His funeral was attended on June 4, 2007, in the park cemetery of Malaga.
The track "Arguru" by Deadmau5 on his album Random Album Title was written in his memory.
Discography
- Inpsyde by Alienated Buddha (Out of Orion, 2002)
References
- ^ Hispasonic - Fallece Juan Antonio Argüelles, "Arguru"
- ^ "Alienated Buddha". Discogs. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
- ^ "FL Studio Creator Died in Car Accident". Future Producers forums. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
- KVR: Arguru Software Aodix
- Sonicspot - NoiseTrekker
- Renoise InDepth - Arguru died in car accident
- Image-Line: Argu