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I'm not familiar with Virus but the short answer to your question is, yes. Essentially, there's usually two or more guys who do only sound-design for the synth manufacturer, plus whatever third-party developers want to get their hands on it, and while they might develop precursor sounds to form into something down the line, every sound on there is fabricated, through one route or another, from the initialization patch.
Although it's kind of a fanciful notion, there's not really any esoteric hard-wiring to some hidden proprietary cache of wave-forms, oscillators, or routing configurations. The sounds are put there, predominantly for one purpose - to sell the synth.
To the beginner, it sounds like gold and to the amateur/semi-pro/professional good sound design, while often musically irrelevant, show-case what the synth is capable of. While, more often in the olden days before USB, some designers may have been provided with sound-design software that made navigating the incessant trees of 2X50 character screens easier, now that stuff can be part of the package you get for any hardware synth at the store.
DJ RANN, Cryophonik and Eric J also know a lot about this stuff, too, so if I'm wrong or not providing enough detail, they should feel free to fill in the gaps.
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2) That's the book. Kind of complex and detailed on an aspergian level, but I found it quite useful.
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