For me, FH-2 
or Droid [this one is based on speculation]
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alm MFX is really really good
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What does a sequential switch do?
Yeah, set and forget for the telharmonic
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Check out Vice Virga from Noise Engineering. Iām in the go so canāt type out the functionality but itās awesome. Doepfer makes one as well but the NE one has more functionality I believe.
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A switch gets fed with one input, and then in turns (every time it gets a clock/trigger/gate) routes the input the next output. For example you can only route the first output to trigger something, and then once in four triggers that routing is selected. You could use it to make events happen less frequently. I often route trigger rhythms through them, but you can also send four different pitches to the four inputs and let it switch through those four in turns and route them to the output (so indeed: itās four inputs and one output or four outputs and one input). You could even use it for audio, for example three different oscillator types that it scrolls through.
The Doepfer version has a toggle to choose for two, three or four out/inputs. Some have a fixed amount. Some have more than four in/outs.
Difficult to explain but hope itās a bit clear?
Thereās also switches that are switched by CV instead of gates/triggers. So they would be āonā when cv is fed to it. But I like the ones that sequence through triggers/gates.
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Clear explanation. Think I get it. Definitely something to look in to.
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Itās not super expensive and fun to experiment with and put it in and out of your case occasionally. Since itās not expensive itās one of those modules that I never sell, so even if itās sometimes shelved, sooner or later I have a use for it again. Added: and once you start understanding it and coming up with new uses, you feel very smart.
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Some good examples here:
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Yeah Ikarie gets my vote as well! Such a fun filter
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There is one in Ornament and Crimes Hemispheres firmware, then you still have another side of the module to use for something else. Sorry, canāt stop raving about this module
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Oh, agreed - itās so good I now have two, and one with the Benispheres alternate firmware (the other is currently stock Hemispheres) for yet more oddness.
Iāve only 48 hp of modules added to an SV-1, but the Contour 1 is amazingly flexible - super precise envelope generator / env follower / filter / lfo / slew limiter and a whack oscillator. If I had @Hooger 's case, Iād dump the Maths and put x Contour 2 + Steveās MS 22 in its place, the thereād still be 8hp to fill 
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I didnāt know about this alternate, alternate firmware! Thereās an app in there that mimics Mutable Grids!!!
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It gets still more alternate (alternate alternate):
Using Benisphere as a starting point, this branch takes the Hemisphere Suite in new directions, with several new applets and enhancements to existing ones
Then thereās Squares and Circles (which requires a Teensy 4.0, which I donāt have in either uO_C):
Similar to Monomachine and Machinedrum here we have basically 4 configurable tracks. Each track can be assigned with a synthesizer machine, controlled by a trigger and CV input. As there are mono and stereo machines, the generated audio signal is routed to one or two neighbor DAC outputs by default. E.g you can chain the mono audio signal from an oscillator machine to the neighbor fx-machine with stereo-outputs.
Thanks for all the suggestions! Greatly appreciated.
All the open source stuff scares me a bit. My intention was to build a case with almost no screens and a minimum of menu diving/shift functions. How is that with the Ornament & Crime?
Feeling this oneā¦ Especially because it also acts as a filter, if I understand correctly?
Also intrigued by the Ikarie and sequential switches (but I almost only see videos with quite extreme sonic results, so bit hesitant)
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I rarely use O_C proper, so canāt comment on that. Hemispheres / Benispheres is pretty straightforward, with two apps selectable per screen from the available options. Everything on those apps is shown on screen, and the knobs are used to scroll from parameter to parameter and modify them, and no shift functions that I can think of immediately.
Thereās a good introductory video to Hemispheres here:
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Very, very interesting. No filter in that firmware, is it?
No, itās not really an area that the O_C and variants specialise in - itās more about the sequencers, modulation and utilities.
I appreciate the non-menu diving aspect completely but Iāve just found O_C to be invaluable in 99% of patches in a small rig. BTW I used to own a Disting EX and had to get rid of it due to the fact that the screen was just too small and menu diving was a chore.
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I see they now have an external ābig screenā now but its only available as a self build currently. Expert Sleepers ā 1U Display PCB ā Thonk ā DIY Synthesizer Kits & Components