(I know this isn’t a feedback session, just about power, but 2p: you really need more modulation sources and ‘boring’ utilities. That is too much shiny! Clouds and Rings both adore modulation, and, in particular, subtle modulation. Rings has attenuators on its CV ins, but Clouds doesn’t. The two tap LFOs in Peaks can be attenuated with knob 1, though Tides can’t be attenuated. And if you’re using Peaks as a pair of LFOs, your only envelope option is Tides. If you like MI, Shades is a very cost-effective three channel attenuverter and mixer.
Similarly, whilst Frames can be used as a VCA… it’s also possibly overkill for what you need now. Something like a Tangle Quartet would give you four channels of VCA in 8HP, and free up space for more boring utilities; a buffered mult might be handy if you want to send Ansible CV to multiple destinations, for instance, and you possibly can’t get away with stackables. That said, Ripples and Tides both have internal VCAs on their outputs, and Rings doesn’t always need one (though you can do interesting things with one).
Regardless: that is a lot of sound sources and not much modulation/manipulation - remember, Tides is an excellent VCO/voice in its own right.).
