Arguru passes away in a car accident

By Bantai on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 at 11:00 am | Renoise News

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.

Arguru

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.

Original announcement (translated from Spanish)

13 Responses to “Arguru passes away in a car accident”

  1. Drule Says:

    Jesus Christ, that is horrible. My condolences go out to his family and friends. Rest in Peace.

  2. nthlogik Says:

    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.

  3. iXR Says:

    See u forever……

    DJ iXRaeL

  4. Olli Niemitalo Says:

    Sad news indeed. :( Love from yehar/#musicdsp

  5. Apr0nz Says:

    Rest in peace my friend! :(

  6. nagz Says:

    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!

  7. Sourcekode@msn.com Says:

    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!..

  8. Asuyuka Says:

    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. =(

  9. sax Says:

    I’m very sad to read this. I use your software since many years..
    thank you for all Arguru, rest in peace.

  10. Sneaky Says:

    Found out who Arguru was on wikipedia yesterday, and today i read that he has died. Obviously a genius of a man, respect.

  11. rool Says:

    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.

  12. sonia Says:

    En nombre de la familia de Juan Antonio agüelles ¨Arguru¨, quiero dar las gracias a todas las personas que han sentido su muerte.

  13. It-Alien Says:

    a translation of the above message from spanish:

    “On behalf of Arguru’s family, I thank all people who were touched by his death.”

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