sorry to get off the subject, but has anyone heard that lame ORGY tune
that Joy Division did a long time ago?  I think it's called Blue Monday.
anyway, the guitar tone is really cool.  I think it sounds like the
engineer processed the soundfile in Soundhack spectral compressor.  i
inevitably had to try it (im not a guitar player-what do i know) but did
not get even similiar results.  ANYONE KNOW?

On the subject>  I have built two compressors in Csound (for soundfiles)
but they are rms type compressors.  the rms command is not suitable for
limiting, however.  i have done some research and not found any command
for finding the instantaniuos peak value on a sample by sample basis.  i
like the way digital compression sounds, as i have built a orc+sco that
sets all sample values to the same value (except it's RMS value so there
is still some amplitude variation) 

anyone's help would be appreciated.

-Tracy Love