What I will often do- in fact, I did this about an hour ago- is take a structured piece of sound (say, a piano melody) in the DAW, route that out to Morphagene or Arbhar and mangle it into a big ole beautiful mess, then capture about 4 bars of that performance. Then I’ll drop the mangled audio into Cycles and impose some kind of rhythmic structure upon it with either the loop or grains engine. And what I end up with is a really interesting interpretation of the original sound that also plays well with the rest of the arrangement.
In the attached example (which is the first, very basic draft of a theme for a friend’s podcast about an attic door that leads into a parallel dimension) Cycles is responsible for the kinda “trilly” piano thingy on the right channel that fades in and out once the orchestral section begins. It’s a patch that maps the mod wheel to grain size, and I’m essentially performing a human sine wave. Hope that helps!
