Hi there! I have used Samplitude for many years and presently have Pro X suite 6 on this laptop along with Pro X2 Silver* which I fire up much more often. I have Pro X suite 3 on an old HP lappy and even SE8 from a magazine freebie years ago! But I am neither musician nor song builder. My son who lives in France is both and uses Sam pro X 3. (and Reaper and the free Cakewalk. note, both might solve your VST3 problem?)
However MAGIX, Samplitude's parent company got into financial difficulties earlier this year, they are still going but the situation is unclear. A new firm called "Boris FX.com have now released Samplitude 2025 and a year's subscription will cost me about £100, something I shall do for my son later this year. Nice guy there you can email <
neal@borisfx.com> You can download a complete copy of Sam 2025 for evaluation.
*Sam Silver is free forever and mainly released in America, always takes me a time to track it down. Pretty good but you need to get it activated by MAGIX and I don't know how that works now due to their recent troubles.
Hope this helps?
Dave.