We are sad to hear that Arguru has died in a car accident on 3 June 2007. He was a very talented programmer and creator of a lot of great software, including NoiseTrekker, which formed the basis for the very first version of Renoise.
Juan Antonio Argüelles Rius will be remembered as a very productive and talented developer, starting new projects every few months. His work includes NoiseTrekker, Aodix, Modix, and Psycle and plugins such as DirectWave and StarDust. He was also recently involved with projects for ImageLine FL Studio.
We offer our condolences to Arguru’s family and friends. Rest in Peace, Arguru.
July 10th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Jesus Christ, that is horrible. My condolences go out to his family and friends. Rest in Peace.
June 6th, 2008 at 3:29 am
i stand here in utter shock to find out Juan Antonio Argüelles Rius has passed away. i didn’t know him personally at all, though, i have complete respect for the man that has built a great many things….. i remember using his psycle 1.7.4 program a number of years back and it seemed very clear to me he was a person to honor/pay homage to ….. with a long standing mantle of programming genius he was & always will be remembered
for.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:38 am
See u forever……
DJ iXRaeL
August 9th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Sad news indeed.
Love from yehar/#musicdsp
December 13th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Rest in peace my friend!
January 24th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
A good friend passed away.. it’s been a while now thought, but the significance remains
i remember discussing the possibilities in Psycle a lot back then.. see ya man!
April 1st, 2009 at 9:16 pm
I’m a really Renoise freak.
It was THE tracker continuing the scandinavian oldskool tracker-like interface
where notes are falling down.
I really prefer Renoise (TWNN) above left to right win applications like fruityloops and many other.
TWNN gave me that oldskool tracker interface with new DISTORT! and Cutoff/
Resonance control.
For me he was the first giving me that ability in tracking and use only computer-
applications to create good (semi)professional recordings.
Today the 1st of April i 2009 was looking for an old copy of TWNN and then…
.
Thank you for your very usefull software Juan.
I will always remember you. C64-Amiga-PC scene BLASTS!..
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:34 pm
It’s been two years to the day and it still hurts to think about his passing.
I hope you’re being treated well in wherever, Arguru. =(
June 15th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I’m very sad to read this. I use your software since many years..
thank you for all Arguru, rest in peace.
July 6th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Found out who Arguru was on wikipedia yesterday, and today i read that he has died. Obviously a genius of a man, respect.
August 17th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
i was actually trying to find some contact info to thank this guy. after switching from amiga to pc, i’ve been searching for an amiga-style tracker and i’ve been working for years now on his noisetrekker… really sad news. he definitely brought music to my life.
respect.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
En nombre de la familia de Juan Antonio agüelles ¨Arguru¨, quiero dar las gracias a todas las personas que han sentido su muerte.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
a translation of the above message from spanish:
“On behalf of Arguru’s family, I thank all people who were touched by his death.”
May 11th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
this is why deadmau5 make the song Arguru
July 21st, 2010 at 8:51 am
I just found out about this horrible loss that occurred more than three years ago, when searching for more information about the wonderful programs of his, Saiko r7 & 10r9. I can not remember when I first started playing with and greatly enjoying Saiko, but I really do love them, and it makes me very sad to read about the death of such an inspired and inspiring musician and programmer.
Not having used any of his other creations, I ask you not to forget Saiko.
It was difficult to find any information about Arguru on Facebook, until I made a search on his full name finding a page that so far only contains information collected from Spanish Wikipedia. (Searching for Arguru gave a lot of links to Deadmau5 but I saw none explicitly about Arguru himself.)
Johan Adler
Stockholm, Sweden
September 28th, 2010 at 2:48 am
Very sad and a huge loss. 3 years too late but sincere condolancies to family and friends. A genius lost, RIP.
October 21st, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Terrible loss , RIP brother , Thank you
February 6th, 2011 at 1:00 am
I seek after Saiko and I see that…
I think I’ll play with it differently now.
Condolences.
March 11th, 2011 at 4:08 pm
You are not forgotten!
March 31st, 2011 at 12:23 am
Hope you’re resting in peace buddy, we’re not forgetting about you.
May 7th, 2011 at 4:08 am
In honor of your memory.
You made this in 2000..
RIP
http://bit.ly/ljib3s
June 17th, 2011 at 11:15 pm
Rest in peace. You are missed.
December 23rd, 2011 at 11:50 am
Paying my respects. Thank you for creating so much cool and free software. Yours is truly a generous and extremely intelligent soul with a passion for creation. You have made your mark on the world.