The Doepfer A183-3 is a very useful Tool for your eurorack.
Gainstages are still MUCH underrated in modularland.
patch your envelope thru it to clip it and thus get a hold stage.
patch first thru a gainstage to go with hot levels into your filter,
probably getting the expected love out of those filters you just didn´t so far.
make them saturate.
patch after ring modulators to get back a hot signal.
use it after filtering out a signal, for example by highpass filtering it, to get that filtered out sound back to a level.
the doepfer a 183-3 has a good sound in my opinion. can´t complain