Overwhelmed with creating sounds

[Dan]

I've had my Virus for over a year now and I still haven't created my own sounds. I've spent some quality time with learning the OS and how to traverse the many menus. I learned how to perform an arrangement dump to my sequencer so I don't need to write down what sound patches I use with each song. But, I'm still using presets. I've read numerous articles on the Internet about subtractive synthesis and I get the basics. I'm just still a bit overwhelmed by all of the settings on the Virus. Where should I start? I have Sound Diver installed on my PC and I like the way it shows all of the settings up-front without having to go into separate sub-menus. But I'm still intimidated by the whole sound design process. Any suggestions? What's a good way to ease myself into it? I was thinking about loading up some of my favorite presets and disecting them. How did you all start with designing sounds?

Thanks,
Dan