#defmon
- Live tracking — performing with a tracker concept"You cannot perform tracking live" (Behemoth, 1997) drew four answers that together describe how sceners actually did it: pattern switching on cue, live instruments over the module, channel muting, and playing a …
- Frantic personC64 scener of the group Hack'n'Trade (also FTC, "Mad Frantic" to goto80 ) who composes and codes in one gesture: his two winning tiny-sid-compo entries — New Kid On The Block (2005) and the generative BLOCK ACID DUB …
- Goto80 personAnders Erik Carlsson, Swedish chip musician and researcher, founder of the demoscene group Hack n' Trade — and defMON 's first user (2008) and live-improvisation champion: "I mostly improvise by typing on a keyboard. …
- Brief introduction to Super Commands (FTC) summaryfrantic 's own introduction to defmon 's "less known" batch-editing mode: Super Commands multiply any ordinary edit keystroke over many steps, many repetitions, every Nth line, or all sequences at once — defMON's …
- chipmusic.org — the defMON megathread (2014–2026) summaryThe de-facto support forum, changelog and design diary for defMON , run for twelve years by its author frantic himself. He opens on 2014-06-08 ("If you are one of those people who tried it out and actually did …
- defMON wiki — DIN/MIDI/LSDj/Nanoloop sync, stereo SID, manual BPM tables summaryThe defmon wiki's hardware pages: Scannerboy's user-port sync adapter (with the assembly code to drive it from your own programs), the 2SID stereo feature set, and frantic 's defBPM calculator/tables (2013-03-02) that …
- defMON wiki — features, interface overview, seqED key map summaryThe unofficial documentation of defmon , frantic 's C64 sid music editor, from the wiki mirror at defmon.vandervecken.com ("There is no official support for the program, but on this wiki you will find some bits and …
- defMON wiki — release history 2008–2020, creations, links summaryThe dated release list of defmon with frantic 's named releases and per-release notes, plus the wiki's list of music and demos made with the program. Version numbers "are essentially just date stamps that reflect the …
- defMON wiki — using a defMON tune in your own program summaryThe defmon wiki's developer pages: how to link a packed defMON tune into an assembly project, the init/play/update entry points (including the multispeed split), and the self-modifying global-volume location. "The …
- defMONing 101: A defMON Operator Field Guide (iLKke, 2013) summaryA compact survival guide to defmon by iLKke, "the result of my limited defMON knowledge based largely on experimentation… not intended as an exhaustive explanation of the program, but rather a brief survival guide and …
- defMONing 102: extended field guide (iLKke et al.) summaryThe extended, multi-author revision of iLKke's defMONing 101 for defmon — same reference core, plus precise timing semantics (fraMES), the full speed/timer key set, Super Commands, and long practical sections on the …
- electro·pizza — defMON, VICE, and the Pocket CHIP (2019) summaryA 2019-07-29 blog post by Ryan Oles documenting, step by step, how he set up vice on a Pocket CHIP (a small Debian-based handheld with a keyboard) to practice defmon without dedicating desk space to a real commodore-64 …
- goto80.com — defMON posts and the Improv page summaryThree short blog posts (2009–2020) and the undated Improv page from goto80 's own site — first-hand statements on defmon 's authorship, its evolution as a live instrument, and his from-scratch improvisation practice on …