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>>33556589
Hey anon I'm just dumping a bunch of info I wish I knew when I was starting out years ago.
Reaper is the absolute worst starting point because it's so unfriendly even to experienced DAW users. Start with Studio One because it's as easy as FL Studio to handle, but uses way less CPU and has more features.
When you're starting your music making journey you're gonna want to focus more on songwriting than audio production for the sake of fun and preserving your sanity, so you need instruments that sound sexy right out of the gate when you start playing around with them.
I learned the hard way that it's more about what you use as a foundation than it is post-processing which makes music sound good.
Grab Kick2 for electronic kick sounds.
Serum, NI Massive and Nexus for electronic synthesizers.
Djinnbass for virtual bass guitar.
Spitfire for orchestral instruments.
NI Noire for piano.
GGD for modern, clean and punchy live acoustic drum sounds.
Heavyocity for huge cinematic drums and pretty much anything "soundtrack" or "film" sounding.
Strezov for male, female and child choirs.
Prominy V-Metal for virtual guitars.
Neural DSP for virtual guitar amplifiers and cabinets.
Neural Parallax to process Djinnbass.
A subscription to Splice to use any and all electronic loops you'll ever need.
For chiptune I actually have no idea, but I do know there is a lot of both good and even free stuff for that.
For mixing and mastering you'll want a combo of Waves and Izotope stuff plus the Weiss collection from Softube. If you can only choose one, then choose Izotope because it's very easy for beginners.
Learn gain staging before learning anything else.
There! You're ready to go and make the best Touhou arrangements in the world! Good luck anon!