Understanding and modifying Chris's compressor

[steve]

so... I must keep improvements to myself?

;;Chris's Dynamic Compressor, version 1.2.7.b1

;; http://pdf23ds.net/software/dynamic-compressor
;;Copyright (c) 2010 Chris Capel
;;Released under the MIT license. See line 77ish for details.

at around line 77

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[Paul L]

I skipped that to get to the good stuff..