I think that difference can come down to 24bit DA converters (with larger headroom) and older machines (even VA) used lower bit depth on their converters (with less headroom), so you can hit the top and even distort the signal much faster.
There's that. And of course it could be that Access has decided to keep things down so as to allow you to create patches with huge distortion and "unisson" and many voices without clipping the signal.
In a Live situation, that's hardly a problem since you can run the outs of your Virus through the pre-amps of your sound card or post-process to make it fit in the mix along with the rest.
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