Virus lacks the bass. You better use the SE1X for the bass. I guess that's why you have bought it anyway? You get nice pads and leads from virus. Use something else for bass. Some people say that they get nice basses out of virus but for hip hop, IMO no. I guess the bass plays a very important role in hip hop so use the SE1X or another analog synth for it. Many people haven't even compared the virus and some analog synths doing basses. It's like comparing a real jp80x0 to Superwave vsti. So sad, some people don't hear the difference even there.
With a real analog synth you get much more punch and clean heavy bass tone which shakes the place. With virus you can get a sound which sounds ok but doesn't have the raw power of an analog. You can always turn up the volume to make everything loud but the sound of the virus is more compressed and does not have the same power. It's like trying to push an amplifier and it just cannot give more. Or you can think it also by the base frequency and harmonic frequencies. With analog synth, you get more powerful base frequency which shakes the place. With Virus it's sometimes like the the base frequency is missing and you hear much more of the harmonics. Hard to explain. And the filter is also important and an analog sound is totally free of aliasing which also makes it more powerful.
