I think the @Louis_R is correct. If you change to vintage mode you can make your track sound vintage which is cool… But if you change back to AudioWarp it doesn’t work BUT Cubase does allow AudioWarp to be selects, and the GUI looks like it’s on AudioWarp and it even states ‘Mode: Music’ but it is still using Vintage mode in the background.
If you go into Vintage and select ‘Standard’ before going back to AudioWarp it works correctly. But surely Cubase should do that part automatically and not just make it look like AudioWarp is working when it is not.
Thats the issue, if you press AudioWarp and your in vintage it should come out of vintage mode and select ‘Standard’ but it doesn’t, it looks lke it has done that but it hasn’t.
I agree with what the moderator has said, that they are incomparable, but if Cubase is allowing the user to switch between them then it should work as the GUI has indicated, or simply not allow the user to switch directly between modes.