Essentially as I understand it, the Virus is a standalone self contained instrument that also has a built in USB audio interface. There is also plug in CONTROL software for the DAW. So there are these 3 separate things working together, the instrument, the built in audio interface and the plug in that controls the synth remotely but when it comes down to it, the Virus is just like any standalone synth, it just also comes with it's own computer audio interface and remote control software that works as a plug in. Therefore you get latency just like plugging any other instrument into a soundcard and using your DAW to record it. This is not really total integration is it? a software synth has more total integration because it fully operates in the same environment as the DAW, in fact a software synth plug in is TOAL integration. Am I going wrong anywhere. The virus is awesome but it is a standalone instrument and the claim of total integration does not seem to be very accurate to me.
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