-I like to use matrix mixers and vcas to patch modulation busses and control busses.
Works also with melodies and gates.

So you you can have many elements that effect each other - but you can blend it always back and forth as you like.
Often consisting of a basic sequence as base element, some kind of shift register, lfos, enevelopes, burst and more -
but you just give a little bit of its complexity, maybe a bit more random there, a bit chaotic bursts over here
- like Bob Ross painting a picture :D
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So its about planing a good control core for many fluctuating elements.

The other aspect is to think about generative chains, to get a working factory of elements.
So your design chains of possibility and effects that work together like a net or maybe network.

Something like:
Enevelope X triggers sequencer B at 20 % - while LFO C changes the pattern, but only if it the value of sequence A is smaller than sequence B.
The shift register goes trough a vca, the vca only opens if trigger Y fires, - trigger Y occurs 5 % of the triggerrate of trigger X.
Trigger Y also fires the main envelope but the envelope changes everytime a low note occurs...............
................. and so on ...................

Not the best example, but you can design a kinds of synergetic flow between modules, if you think about how they can combine movements in cv.

also simple stuff like combining a Lapsus Os with a Gamut Repetitor can be a good point without complex pastching.

Greetings

Chris