It's not hard-wired (like analogue modulars, for example). The operating system is stored on a memory chip - Flash ROM - which has a certain memory size, and can be erased and re-programmed. It's all digital code. It's effectively a soft synth, in a hardware body. It just happens to sound 10x better than any other soft-synth.
The reason? It's programmed (or converted) into assembly language - machine code, using mnemonics - which is extremely efficient as it takes fewer lines of code and runs exceptionally fast, as it's in a lower-level language that hardware can understand without having to decode it in realtime. The only way it could be faster would be if it was programmed in binary.
Most software synths are programmed in higher level languages (C++, etc.) which aren't anywhere near as efficient as machine code. They're bulkier, and run slower as they need decoding.
Plus, because the Virus has its own hardware, and isn't simply piggy-backed onto an operating system like Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X, it can run even faster. This means you can have more lines of code, to make it sound even better.
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PS > And another thing! Will the Ti|3 have user customisable/importable wavetables?  A ribbon-controller or XY-Pad might be nice, too, please! Thanks!
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