If you can get a play with one plugged into a computer - that will help - Virus Control is a really nice editor for it, but it has to be run inside a DAW. If you can use it through virus control for a while and get used to what other control are there, then you will find tweaking directly via the hardware interface become a whole lote easier.
I allmost exclusively program my TI-K via the hardware now - I tend to mostly use it without a DAW in single or multi-mode - and even with a DAW active, its quite rare Ill bother with virus control as that forces it into SEQ mode.
You might also want to have a look at a Korg Radias-R and Nord Lead 3 Rack if the Virus sound aint doing it for you. Ive not used an NL3, but that does seem to have a much more accessable user interface. I think the radias is easier to edit as well.
I guess where a TI can score well is there are just so many good sounds in it and available on the net you can allmost get away with never learning to deeply program it and instead just tweak presets - far less so with most others.
One plus for the Radias - it has a nice bunch of sound templates in it that are intended as starting points for creating you own sounds - that in combination with the bigger display does really speed up patch creation.
Another suggestion that applies for just about any digital synth - use a knob box or knobs on a controller keyboard to give direct access to parameters buried in menus.
Job number one it seems though is to figure out if the Virus sound is what you are after?
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