Hi all! I've been lurking here for quite some time, and after years of viral lust, I've finally been able to take the plunge and pick up a Virus TI2 Desktop! 
I've read a lot of the threads on here already, read a lot in other places, and watched Ben Crosland's awesome bootcamp videos. And I feel even on my first day that programming the Virus is a dream! It's incredibly intuitive, and I've gotten sounds out of it that I had been trying to achieve with soft synths and plugins and still wasn't able to quite get. This is the first hardware synth I have, other than a Korg MS-2000 - which is awesome, but has very limited polyphony and isn't anywhere near as flexible as the Virus. So I'm a kid on Christmas again.
Not to mention, it's INSANE how deep this thing is! I feel like I haven't even scratched the surface of what it's capable of, and I'm really psyched to just spend many hours experimenting and twiddling!
dont just read the bad things, engage in the good things, learn, and be part of a great community of unique wise people...seek and ye shall find! 
