Comrade Deflection
By Dank Receptor on July 5, 2026 6:57 pm
In my ongoing series of "why make it easy when you can make it hard" I decided to learn defMON today. Spent most of the day in trial & error mode and ended up with a short and very basic acid/electro jam. I did manage to figure out quite a lot of defMON details along the way, however.
- Got comfortable with the SID registers
- Figured out the sidTAB table and its timing, primitive filter envelopes, etc
- Observed how janky the timing gets under certain conditions, and how effective some workarounds are (first and foremost avoiding a couple of values in the ADSR)
Anyway, this was great fun! I look forward to jamming more in defMON, and hopefully I'll make something slightly more captivating next time. 
Programmed and performed on a Commodore 64 Ultimate, recorded live through a Mackie mixer w/built in FX. Slightly mastered in Ableton.
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Theoretically, it should also be possible to go well below 20 Hz but I wouldn't bet that the machine supports it properly in the audio path.