Diode VCA Compressor

Not a curve fit. The bridge is solved, sample by sample.

Most compressors that claim a diode bridge approximate one — a static curve measured off a bench and replayed. This one solves the bridge itself: four diodes, their shared thermal state, and the sidechain that drives them, evaluated every sample.

That matters where the hardware is least polite. Fast transients bend the knee in a way a lookup table cannot reproduce, and the two channels drift against each other exactly as a real pair does until you link them.

Everything else is conventional on purpose. Threshold, ratio, attack, release, mix, and a sidechain filter you can hear through. Nothing hidden, nothing that needs a manual.