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It sounds like you’ve already correctly diagnosed the issues imo. I think for the time being it’s probably not a bad shout to focus on a single voice in your existing case and see what you can do with the utilities you do have. OT via MIDI 1U + DPO, Quadrax, Veils, Paths and Plague Bearer make up a pretty powerful monosynth with tons of possibilities. You can also send that through OT for some FX, though they won’t be quite as well integrated as FX modules would be. Put these next to each other in the case and spend some time patching them together. Learn what you need for your case from what you find yourself missing while patching.

You might find while patching that to get all you can out of DPO you need all the power of those other modules - that should be some indication of what the true cost of having this many sound sources in your case is. A mixer or two can help with that problem, but you still may run out of modulation for the other oscillators. But that brings me back to the previous point - best way to learn what makes sense for your needs is patching.

If you want to make generative stuff you can do some tricks with the OT (plenty of videos on youtube), but if you want to do it ‘the modular way’ you need a quantiser at a minimum. You could use OT’s random LFO in trig hold mode through the MIDI 1U in place of a traditional Source Of Randomness module, but you’ll be missing out on some of the unique things you can get in eurorack (like random modules where you can lock in a loop once you hear something you like, like Turing Machine/Marbles). A nice 1U module to get a bunch of random/S+H/T+H/noise CV stuff is Intellijel’s Noise Tools.

Or sell it all and get a Mac.

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