Thank you
Those tracks are somewhat older now and when I put up some new things hopefully the sound quality/processing will be more up to scratch.
My go to plugins are -
Virus TI (obviously)
Massive
Camel Audio Alchemy
Reaktor utilising some 3rd party patches that are quite tasty.
I use Massive for reesey, growly bass line samples and then get in there and multiband them, multiband distortion, rate reduction etc etc. Theres a really nice soundset called RSL on the TI site that has great dubsteppy/dnb wobbles, growls etc. That said, I have been using the TI more for those kind of sounds, as I wrap my head around what the processes are in Massive, then attempt to replicate aspects of them with the TI.
Also in some of the tracks theres a bit of Sherman Filterbank action which can drastically destroy and crunch the tones - combine the warm TI sound with the warm Sherman and it can get quite wild.
I bought the TI being an absolute newb when it came to synthesis - having mostly used production keyboards like the Motif, Triton etc etc - having it all hands on taught me so much and allowed me to explore synthesis with an instrument that sounds beautiful.
All up, I'd consider how much money you can justify spending. If its not really an object, the TI might be the best music purchase youve ever made. It certainly is for me.