Glad I am not the only one with this silly idea!
This is my current setup:
Current Rack
Ableton+M4L
I am having a good time with the doepfer translating signals to my setup in Ableton+M4L, it does loses signals when you have a very fast triggers going on. The trigger I/O seems like a good investment. For my kind of music/composition ideas, this setup is going in good direction: ecosystem of samples and movement in sound (complex lfo’s, envelopes are central), if I turn knobs on the maths everything moves with it. With the beginning and end of cycle triggers on the maths I can trigger samples. This is for now just a test-setup and I am not that happy with the Rene, a second maths might be a good addition, I am also thinking going for a teletype, meadow physics and monome.