Entertainment grade sound cards usually give you the option to select the recording source. Professional sound cards usually have a utility where you can mix and patch/send the inputs and outputs. If I remember correctly, with the Virus, the analog inputs become the soundcard inputs for the computer, and nothing else. You can either physically connect the analog outs to the analog ins, or use your DAW or a lightweight VST host to record from VC, when it plays a static input based patch with no effects.
The answer he gave was "no", you need to use cables 
Hey flabberbob, thanks for the reply. It's not necessarily that I want to record the sound generated by the Virus synth, I want to record general audio, such as Spotify when sampling music, when I'm using my virus as a soundcard. Indeed it only has the "in" as an available audiosource. So other than splitting my out to the in as well, I was wondering whether I could route it without resorting to cables.
If you lived in Macland you could use Soundflower for internal routing, unfortunately that is not available for windows machines. I've done a quick search & uncovered 3 options for you…
I don't know how good any of those are, but they might have demos you can try.
Good Luck 
Great Ruari, didn't thought of going down that road. Thanks so much, great advice
