A MIDI message will deliver! If you draw the automation (in your daw with the pencil tool and curve edditing...) and assign it to the parameters you want to control, then the Virus can perform just like Massive or any of the most reveered for their modulation options synths.
Of course you'll need to familiarize yourself with your host's automation tools a lot, but you can surely build an automation curve that goes beyond 20Hz. Just don't expect it to perform aliasing free, since most DSP instruments are thought out to not exibit aliasing on their most extreme settings of modulation, and that doesn't account for using external modulation inputs.
Simple test: just extend the range of your pitch bend wheel first. Then draw some crazy curves on your daw for it. Draw some very short cycles 20Hz or more and play it. It does respond as it should. And you have a ton of other CC's to use, assignable in the mod matrix, plus you have the midi cc map to assign parameters directly if you want.
Even if you have some fancy modular LFO in there, and perhaps some warp modules and modifiers of sorts, it would still send a CV message, not audio, and therefore how would you even expect to use that in a DSP based synthesizer? CV>MIDI converter would enable you to use it on any MIDI capable machine though, you could store this midi message on your daw and then assign some cc, like cc#3 to this and assign cc#3 on the Virus to handle pitch or filt cuttof or something, and there you go!
but the LFOs on the Virus are far from being limited. I mean, where else do you have 64 waves to choose from besides the regular "analogue" shapes? And what about the contour settings? Fade in and out on 3rd LFO? Being able to use recursive modulation to have one modulating the rate of the other, while the other's rate is modulating itself, plus the amount that the former is modulating the rate of this one? That's a wacky modulation input that can sound as weird and organic as some weird euro rack module.
ok, so just build yourself a nice collection of automation drawings and have some fun!
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