Bjarni88 said:
Any of the usual suspect DAWs are good. PT, Cubase, Live, Sonar, DP, Podium, Reaper, Tracktion, Audition...take your pick.
software to create trance and house.
See above, really. Ableton Live is very much well suited for loop-based work (and that's what I use for everything), but doesn't mean other software packages wouldn't work just as well. It's really about finding the program that suits
your workflow than anything else. I guess you could add Reason & FL to this list as well.
and a software to seperate vocals from the beats
This is unfortunately science fiction for the time being. If you can find the accapella of the song in question, you can do some phase inversion tricks to accomplish the task pretty well, but otherwise you're stuck with careful filtering & EQ, possibly some spectral masking stuff which is starting to be pretty complicated. Elevayta's
Extra Boy Pro is probably the most cost effective solution that does a reasonable job if the material is suitable; the rest of the so-called "vocal removers" are usually super simple and don't really work that well.
The bottom line is that there's no one-stop solution for this, as it's metaphorically about the same as trying to pull the eggs out of a baked cake.
