I heard that you are struggling with the Dandelifeon, that it is not turning out what you wanted it to be. Now I just want to try to enlighten a possible flower design to fill the gap the Dandelifeon would make if it were to be removed.

A flower that creates mana from music, sounds and others. There is a challenge to create a music disc farm after all. And you added the cacophonium too. So, with the clever usage of redstone one could create mana from things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCKUV_yignk