SKREWELL - Hardware synth equivalent ideas? What is the structure of Skrewell?

3 pairs of oscillators each pair has cross modulation for FM and AM. two pairs use pulse waves and the other uses sinusoid (par FM)

each par also feeds a couple of filters with a delay and clipper in a network that also has local feedback.

There doesn't seems to be much (or any?) global feedback. (maybe there is feedback via send receive modules? those make reverse engineering a bit of a pain). Maybe also feedback via parameters rather than direct audio modulation?

There are some parameters that have two settings that get switched between. This makes a lot of sense in the context of bifurcating fractals. And that also makes sense in the context of the sound that skrewell makes. It does that thing where components of the sound toggle chaotically between two states, and when lots of things are doing that you get loads of layers that still make sense in that there are recognisable characteristics rather than just a random mess.

You could use comparators and inverters with VCAs, or alternatively CV switches with offset/attenuverters to create that bifurcating chaotic selection between two states in various parts of the structure.

So basically:

4 pulse wave oscillators

2 sinusoid oscillators

6 LP filters

6 bandpass filters (combo lp and hp in Skrewell)

6 delays (basic delays)

6 compressors (there is some sort of compression set up using peak detectors and clippers on the post oscillator delay feedback sections)

Using some more fully featured delays maybe can remove the need for the compressors depending on feature set)

some way to get 8 random sources (e.g. a doepfer A-152 combined with a noise source and a clock source)

multiple two state switches (there a lots in Skrewell, but maybe you can get away with fewer and still capture the essence?

You can probably get some interesting results even with two sections instead of three

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This is the reason some folk have huge walls of Eurorack!

To do something like Skrewell that's easy(ish) in Reaktor, you need a LOT of modules.

Maybe look into hardware modules that are designed for producing chaotic output. Like Benjolin or other stuff by Rob Hordijk, or stuff like 'fourses'. There are lots of other chaotic analogue modules. They won't sound like Skrewell, but would likely give you more/better results for less money than trying to recreate Skrewell ;)