Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius (November 2, 1978 – June 3, 2007), also known as Arguru (sometimes Argu), was a prolific

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and electronic musician, producer and songwriter, responsible for such applications as NoiseTrekker and Directwave. Worked for the compan
discoDSP
and was later hired by

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and involved in the development of

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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

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-scene. In 2000, he and Frank Cobos (known as "Freaky") began mixing psytrance 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

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. Arguru worked for the software compan
discoDSP
with George Reales since July 2002
discoDSP
is known for developing audio plugins such as

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. He left the company in 2004 to begin working for

. While at Image-Line, he contributed to the development of

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and was the primary programmer for the

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, 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

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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

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after the death of Juan Antonio. * NoiseTrekker was a Windows tracker with MIDI, internal synth, 2

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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

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, 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

, development was continued by other people. Current versions are released under

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and available for all major platforms.

Death

On June 3, 2007, near the city of

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( 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,

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and

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wrote an instrumental titled "Arguru" for the album ''

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'' in memory of Arguru.

References

External links

discoDSP

Arguru software
* Psycle'
official community

Official free repository of his songs composed with Psycle
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