Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius (November 2, 1978 – June 3, 2007), also known as Arguru (sometimes Argu), was a prolific
music software programmer
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and electronic musician, producer and songwriter, responsible for such applications as
NoiseTrekker and Directwave. Co-founded the compan
discoDSPand was later hired by
Image-Line
Image-Line Software (commonly known as simply Image-Line) is a Belgian software company best known for its digital audio workstation program FL Studio and related audio plugins such as Sytrus and Harmor. Image-Line was founded in 1994. In 2007, ...
and involved in the development of
Deckadance
Deckadance (often referred to as DD) is a DJ console and mixing tool developed by Image-Line software and acquired in 2015 by Gibson. Initially released in May 2007, it operates on Windows and Mac OS X, and comes in a House Edition and Club Edit ...
and
FL Studio 7. Arguru died in a car accident on June 3, 2007.
Biography
Juan Antonio Arguelles was born on November 2, 1978, in
Málaga, Spain. In 1997, Arguru started out as one of the most productive plugin developers of the
Jeskola buzz
Jeskola Buzz is a freeware modular software music studio environment designed to run on Microsoft Windows using MFC. It is centered on a modular plugin-based machine view and a multiple pattern sequencer tracker.
Buzz consists of a plugin arch ...
-scene. In 2000, he and
Frank Cobos (known as "Freaky") began mixing
psytrance
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as a duo in Malaga under the name Alienated Buddha. They released the album ''Inpsyde'' on Out of Orion in February 2002.
In May 2000 he created Psycle until version 1.0, which he then released into the
public domain
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.
Arguru co-founded the software compan
discoDSPwith George Reales in July 2002
discoDSPis known for developing
audio plugin
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s such as
Discovery
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Discovery ProVertigoBlissPhantoman
Corona Discovery is notable for being the first commercial
VSTi
Virtual Studio Technology (VST) is an audio plug-in software interface that integrates software synthesizers and effects units into digital audio workstations. VST and similar technologies use digital signal processing to simulate traditional ...
plugin that was available on both Windows and
Linux
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. He left the company in 2004 to begin working for
Image-Line
Image-Line Software (commonly known as simply Image-Line) is a Belgian software company best known for its digital audio workstation program FL Studio and related audio plugins such as Sytrus and Harmor. Image-Line was founded in 1994. In 2007, ...
.
While at Image-Line, he contributed to the development of
FL Studio
FL Studio (previously known as FruityLoops before 2003) is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by the Belgian company Image-Line.
FL Studio features a graphical user interface with a pattern-based music sequencer. The program is avail ...
and was the primary programmer for the
DJ software
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Deckadance
Deckadance (often referred to as DD) is a DJ console and mixing tool developed by Image-Line software and acquired in 2015 by Gibson. Initially released in May 2007, it operates on Windows and Mac OS X, and comes in a House Edition and Club Edit ...
, released in 2007.
Other projects
* Aodix 1,2 and 3 were basic sequencer programs that used the amiga style "tracker" interface, with an integrated sampler and integrated synth that were progressively dropped in favor of a VST host.
* Aodix 4 is a
digital audio workstation
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program that is advertised as "the ultimate bridge between tracking and sequencing",
co-authored with Zafer Kantar,
and with the participation of Paul Merchant and Marc De Haar. Aodix 4 brought several innovative technologies to trackers such as pattern zoom and subtick timing and VST support with modular routing. Aodix 4 was a commercial software at its first release, but was re-released as
freeware
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after the death of Juan Antonio.
*
NoiseTrekker was a Windows tracker with MIDI, internal synth, 2
TB303
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s and DSP support featuring a classic amiga-style interface.
NoiseTrekker code was used as a basis for the first version of
Renoise
Renoise is a digital audio workstation (DAW) based upon the heritage and development of tracker software. Its primary use is the composition of music using sound samples, soft synths, and effects plug-ins. It is also able to interface with MID ...
,
one of the most modern and actively developed
music trackers.
* Psycle is a complete modular music creation environment with a tracker interface. Versions up to 1.0 were created by Arguru. After that it was released into the
public domain
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, development was continued by other people. Current versions are released under
GNU GPL
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and available for all major platforms.
Death
On June 3, 2007, near the city of
Benalmádena (
Málaga, Spain), Arguru was driving when he lost control and crashed into an
RV, dying in the accident.
His funeral was on June 4, 2007, in the park cemetery of Malaga.
The whole music software community was appalled by Arguru's unexpected death, and showed their strong support to Arguru's relatives.
Discography
*''Inpsyde'' by Alienated Buddha (Out of Orion, 2002)
Legacy
* In 2007,
deadmau5
Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), known professionally as Deadmau5 (stylized as deadmau5; pronounced "dead-mouse"), is a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ. He mainly produces progressive house music, though he also produces ...
and
Chris Lake
Chris Lake (born 8 August 1982) is a British electronic music producer and DJ. He rose to fame in 2006 with his hit single, "Changes", featuring Laura V.
Musical career
Lake first became recognized for his bootleg remixes of the Prodigy's "Cli ...
wrote a song titled "Arguru" for the album ''
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'' in memory of Arguru.
References
External links
discoDSPArguru software* Psycle'
official communityOfficial free repository of his songs composed with Psycle
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Spanish electronic musicians
1978 births
2007 deaths
20th-century Spanish musicians
Road incident deaths in Spain