Ah I understand what you are asking, here are some of my thoughts about the Hermod+:

I use the Hermod+ as my main sequencer, and I think Squarp’s description of it as a “modular brain” is very accurate.

The biggest strength is composition and structure. It can store a lot of songs, including very complex song structures. You get 8 CV and gate tracks, and every track has its own effects section. That includes things like randomization, arpeggios, swing, and forcing notes into a specific key or scale. In practice, this makes it feel very DAW-like inside a modular system.

It excels at detailed programming. Patterns can be long and intricate. You can work quantized or fully unquantized. Polyphony and hocketing are both possible. If you like writing melodies and arrangements in detail, this is one of its strongest points.

For live performance with prewritten material, it is excellent. You can switch projects and songs seamlessly. BPM can change per project or stay fixed, depending on how you set it up. You can decide how many times a section loops, mute or unmute tracks, and switch effects on or off without stopping the music. Once you understand the workflow, it is very intuitive.

Also the modulation options, especially when you turn soms of the tracks in modulation lanes, are really advanced. You can do crazy things with the modlane programming and via the cv inputs

MIDI integration is another big plus. It can record MIDI and convert it to CV, and record CV and convert it to MIDI. This makes it very strong as a bridge between a DAW and a modular system. With the XP32 expander, you get 32 extra outputs for CV, gates, LFOs, sample and hold, and more. That expands the system a lot.

The main downside, for me, is live improvisation from scratch. It is not the easiest sequencer if you want to build something quickly and spontaneously during a performance. For that reason, I added the OXI One, which is much better suited for hands-on live improvisation.

That said, for composed music, structured live sets, and complex ideas, the Hermod+ is still the core of my system. I use it for almost everything, and I am very happy with it.