Paths | Generative Ambient Patch in VCV Rack 2

There are many paths that can lead to a solution. For this patch however, I went down a lot of paths that I had to abandon because they simply didn't work together. I did save some of those abandoned paths however, since they could become the start of a different patch.
The start of this patch was the voice that's made using the Instruō modules. The Instruō set has been tempting me for a while now, not in the least because of how they look. But I had no idea what a lot of the knobs and buttons on them were actually doing. So I took some time to watch a couple of the "Module Overview" videos on their TH-cam channel (highly recommended, I learned a lot from those videos, and probably forgot even more ). The voice in this patch was created after watching the neóni tutorial video with Through-Zero frequency modulation. The note input is generated by a relatively fast triggering tágh module which is quantized to a C minor pentatonic by the harmonàig and scaled up into a higher octave. A bandpass filter is applied to this by the I-ō47 module that moves up and down in the higher frequency range. After sending the output through a chorus and a reverb, the end result is a mass of movement in the higher frequency spectrum that goes up and down due to the bandpass filter.
Below that, two Dark Energy modules that are slightly detuned from each other are playing a second more melodic voice. The notes for this voice are provided by a Geodesics Branes module that is sent into two Pulsars modules. Two differently timed clocks trigger these modules after they have been sent through bernoulli gates. To bring some interest into these two random note patterns, both are summed with the same (scaled) LFO output, but for one of them the LFO output is inverted. So as one note sequency slowly moves up, the other slowly moves down. That way, there is always one note pattern moving towards higher notes, while the other pattern is moving towards lower notes. The output of the Dark Energy modules is sent through a Surge XT filter with some modulation applied to it to bring some movement into this voice. The filtered result is sent into a Chronoblob delay (set to ping-pong mode) and a chorus, but it is also joined by the output (at half volume) of a Complex Simpler module which has been recording the output of the filter and is playing it back in reverse.
Due to the randomness of the previous voice, occasional gaps would emerge where only the background voices were playing for a while. To fill out the melodic voice a bit more, a voice which plays some longer notes was added to the patch. The notes are randomly generated by a Sample and Hold and are played by a Macro Oscillator module set to the "Granular formant oscillator" model. The output is then sent through a filter to soften it up a bit, after which a Tap Dancer delay spreads them out a bit more.
To fill out the low frequencies of this patch, a combination of the The Garder and Seeds of Change modules by Frozen Wasteland are generating slow random sequences which are played back by a pair of FM-OP modules. The result gets beaten up a bit by a Surge XT Rotary Speaker module and a Tuube by Mockba Modular to give the sound some more grit before sending it through a reverb.
__ Setup __
- VCV Rack 2.4.1 on Windows
- All audio generated internally within VCV Rack (no external connections)
- Video is captured by OBS
- Audio output is sent through a VB-Audio Virtual Cable to Ableton Live
- Audio recording synced to OBS, and fade added at the end with Reaper
- OBS video and Reaper audio are merged and cut to length using Shutter Encoder.
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[@AndMart1962]

nice, like the description of how everythings goes together

[@not-things]

Thanks!