What I have found is that the virus is a bit more tricky to create the typical basses and sounds you hear in most dub step tunes because they are typically made using a combination of massives performer and the modulation knob.
The virus does not have the flexibility of the performer Lfo mode to make the sounds modulate as fast as when using massive, although I recommend trying a couple of things....
Most important is the source sound....experiment with oscillator shapes in the wavetables...scan through them with an Lfo assigned to the shape of the oscillator and listen to which ones sound nice for what you want...something harmonically rich is a good start.
Don't use an Lfo for when you are making a sequence, instead draw automation in your sequencer to control things like cutoff etc.this allows you to create your own shapes.
Distortion is your friend !
Don't be afraid to use the eq to boost certain freqs..
Assign the arp to filter cutoff and see how it sounds.
Frequency shifter is also your friend !
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