I love Propellerhead's Reason! It's what I first started using back in version 3 and still use it to this day with version 6. Highly highly recommend it to anyone that is wanting to do music production. Excellent tool for beginners and the professionals. Reason taught me sound design and what the differences are in different style instruments. I had absolutely no idea what music production really looked like when I first started. In fact, I remember the first time I ran reason and had no idea what I was doing. I didn't have anyone to teach me, only google and youtube, but now I can route my instruments the way I want and my work flow is up to par. Reason is just a great software. Love it.