Had it for about 2 hours and I'm already prepared to say it's not a replacement for Clouds (Typhoon). It's different. It's probably "better". And you can easily justify having both. Having said that I plan to replace Typhoon with a uCell or some micro HP clone. I need the space back. Beads is super awesome, and I barely know how to use it yet. I do sort of wonder how it compares to my Mimeophon if you fully master both modules. The granular "genre" has a lot of variety and crossover. Beads has been very approachable for me.