As a general rule of thumb you can recreate or at least emulate very closely pretty much any kind of stock digital/analogue or virtual analogue sound using a Virus. How close you get depends on your understanding of your own instrument and how much time you are willing to invest in order to get it as close as possible. That and post processing to overcome some of the limitations of the synth itself. The not very bright oscillators for one thing.
You shouldnt worry so much about what your instrument cannot do, so much as what you CAN do with that instrument. It is easy to forget that in pretty much all instances, we, not the synth, are the limiting factor with regards to what sounds we can create.
Therefore, I would probably recommend you get extremely busy brushing up on your knowledge of subtractive synthesis and get busy programming Viruses.
As for that lead sound. yep...its the JP8000 and its a supersaw (it had to be didnt it?). The short of it is that you cannot build supersaws *exactly* on a Virus but you can get extremely close with post processing and a careful eye for sound design.
if you want to build them exactly as is and have an easy time of it, then you would be advised to get a JP8080 instead of a Virus.
However, the Virus is quite capable of cloning that sound (even without the hypersaw oscillator on the Virus TI). I have gotten very close on a Virus B. Not to mention that the Virus is, compared to the JP8080, more versatile and better featured.
Since I have a number of supersaw'ish patches, ill try to morph one into that lead sound...be back later.
A side note: god. digital pianos, supersaws AND antares autotune on the vocals.
DS would have a seisure...
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