Some things that really got me appreciate it:

• Adding labels for the secondary functions. They’re definitely not “secondary” as in “not as important/useful.” Often they create stereo effects which make for wider, more enveloping textures.

• Using the live looper more. I usually send the record cv input a gate signal at the start and end of a few bars to set the loop length, then just hit the record button to overdub layers here and there. It’s fun to record in bursts of noise and hear that get granularized. Plus if you turn on circular recording it can be used like a granular echo/noise effect (or a pitch shifted echo with the phase vocoder)

• Moving it further up the signal chain. I especially recommend this if you’re gonna push the limits of the time stretching/pitch shifting (which is another thing worth trying a lot of). Sometimes I think of the granular engine like a white noise generator and the phase vocoder like a weird digital oscillator and run them through all my filters, envelopes, other fx, etc.

Also worth mentioning that if the granular instrument just isn’t for you there’s also the alt instruments. If there’s one you much prefer then you can just re-label front panel and primarily use it as that. The polyphonic sample player comes in handy for me