You mean that if you select a Midi Part pointing to Virus Midi channell 2, on both the plugin and the Virus you'll be working on Part 2? It has always been like that (at least for me).
I suspect this depends on how you setup the Virus plugin...well...if I'm not wrong I remember struggling with this when I did my own "new song" template project in Cubase. I did it once (long time ago) to start every new song with the Virus and Maschine complex midi/audio routing preloaded, so exactly now I don't remember what I did to obtain this behaviour from the TI, but I suspect it has to do with loading the plugin from the instruments rack as multitimbral instrument rather than normally firing up a new instrument track inside Cubase.
Try doing that.
Ok, yes, we are talking about the same feature 
I remember, when doing my template, that I tried loading the Virus several times just to obtain this congruent and useful behaviour...but I can't exactly remember what I did, you know, a template is there to be loaded and forget the pain to setup stuff everytime 
Well, I see now you're on OSX...Maybe that changed only now in Cubase for Mac... I forgot to mention I'm on Win...
Could be, yes! Tomorrow I'm gonna check if I'm using the vst2 or 3.
interesting. keep us posted guys.
I checked now, my Plugin Manager inside Cubase says I've 1 instance of the Virus TI Plugin, VST 3.5.0 version (I'm in Cubase 9 64bit on Win10 64 here).
whatever happens there, will unlikely be available in the VST2 version. i know that we suggested that features some years back to steinberg and there might be some code in Virus Control which support it. but it would be totally untested code and i'd be kind if surprised if we would have left it in there. all this wouldn't happen just automatically.
in general i can only recommend you all to use the VST3 variation for various reasons. among those are that steinberg discontinued support for VST2 some time ago and also that you don't have to learn automation<>parameter assignments anymore. VST2 had a limit there, VST3 doesn't really.
Yes... this is happening. I'm using VST 3. I load as 'Instrument Track' not 'Rack Instrument' Since Cubase upgrade the Instrument tracks more like Track instruments I no longer use them. I prefer the view management with Instrument Tracks.
