Hello electronic music lovers! Wow, it feels good to say that

So I just got my hands on a shiny new ti2 and must say I am every bit of blown away and frustrated that a kid could be. Blown away because this is the best sounding thing I have ever experienced, frustrated because I went back to try to re-make a bunch of my trance tracks with the TI2 and quickly learned that extensive knowledge of the ES2 and other soft synths can't tame this beast.
What kinds of problems and situations did you guys run into at the beginning of your relationship with the virus that pushed your buttons and tweaked your knobs in the wrong way?