From a quick read, things for audio over USB do not look hopeful, but apparently according to some, MIDI over USB works under both Catalina and Big Sur. When I still had my Virus, USB audio never worked very well anyway, laggy and disappointing. I had to run audio straight to the interface and use the plug-in for sound creation. Problem was I had a Snow, which doesn't have enough knobs on the hardware itself, so once all of these great analog synths started emerging, I had less and less reason to mess with the Virus, so I ended up selling it. Once I had an OB-6, Prophet 6, Prophet 12, Rev 2 etc there was no turning back. I will get a Prophet10 soon. These synths don't have plug-ins, the beauty is in not only the raw sound but the immediacy of the hardware. Ten years ago this level of synth glory wasn't available, now it's back.
If I'm not mistaken you have the desktop Ti2? If so, I'd just say enjoy all the knobs on the front and get in the habit of using those to tweak instead of the software... definitely ditch the USB audio, it was never worth a shit anyway. For longer term viability, consider Windows for your DAW host because Apple doesn't give a fuck about backward compatibility and no vendor is going to keep rewriting their software every time a new OS comes out unless they have an ongoing healthy revenue stream to support the upgrades.
Meanwhile I can run software I wrote 35 years ago on Windows! Microsoft has their faults but they are the absolute kings of backward compatibility, and if you want a stable music production environment there are a lot of advantages. If you made the switch to Mac from Windows XP, just know that things have changed a lot on Windows, it is a slick OS and nothing like XP, Vista etc.
Trust me I did the Logic/MacOS thing for a while. Combining Apple's habit of breaking changes every couple of years with Kemper's lack of give-a-fuckness is a recipe for disaster. Plus Mac has now deviated from Intel processors so they can make their laptops more like their phone... I doubt the overall outcome will be good for music software vendors.
The other option is to sell your Virus... it's still worth a lot and there are so many great hardware and software alternatives these days.
I did see somewhere a rumor that Kemper might be working on a new synth, but it could be just a rumor. I noticed Waldorf dropped the price on the Kyra... if I were going to buy a VA synth today that might be the one, it's powerful as hell being FPGA based. Not sure if the Kyra price drop is an indication in short-term lack of demand for VA? All of that is just trends that come and go. Vintage analog is all the rage now, but I've seen that come and go in the past too.
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