DAW R&B Rock 70's

[czymer]

Hi,

I'm beginner at music composition. I listen various genre of music from 70's disco funk 80's rock ending on modern R&B and POP. I would like to create music mixing this styles and I want to hear your opinion what DAW would be the best for that. Maybe some VST you recommend? I read couple of threads about DAW's and as always people praise the one which they use. I've got 4 favourite instruments. Percussion, guitar, piano and sax. What libraries are good for create that? Tell me what you think about Kontakt 8, Chris Hein, Mixosaurus, BFD, Toontrack? I dont play at any instrument but consider to learn piano and guitar.
Appreciate your help

 

[bandcoach]

learn both piano and guitar so that you understand what you will be trying to write also study drums at least on paper if you cannot afford a kit - use sticks and play air drums, whilst mastering the basic sticking techniques associated with the - older style foam mousepads make for great practice pads for rudimental sticking

as for a daw, this is entirely dependent on what you can afford

if you budget is high then get cubase7 essentials or the full version

if not get reaper (never-ending fully working free demo and $60 license fee when you are ready to pay for it)

instead of just getting the kontakt 5 and it's library get komplete 9 ultimate (that has everything in teh NI stable at the time of publishing).

The libraries that ship with it are exceptional and very easy to use. The factory library is a good source of sounds, but for specialist sounds like a 70's drum kit or an 80's drum kit, you may want to use the Abbey Road Drum collections.