I'm still a bit foggy sorry as I don't see why there's a need to bounce when you can monitor live and tweak accordingly.
Let's forget about the Virus for now. Let's say you wanted to apply sidechain compression to an instance of Operator. Are you familiar with doing so? If not, this should help clear things up:
If I'm simplifying things too much let me know. I'm posting from work and a little groggy
