Producing is one of the couple ways of making music that you cannot half ass and get away with it. Obviously you "can" ofcourse. If you want to make tracks of the highest quality it takes a legit amount of attention to detail. Shits tedious but there's no way around it. I think producing is the most ...

Nothing wrong with reusing sounds if you ask me.

Pepsi is shit compared to coke imo. But every so often I'll hear someone complain that they can't get a pepsi at a restaurant. I would give the place props for not letting a mediocre cola in their business. Some people don't make sense

Reason isn't immune to being torrented. I'm not an expert tho so don't quote me on that. The folks at Propellorhead always add some shit that personally I think is just bells and whistles for the most part. Rack extensions for example, I never used one but it looks like some shit i don't care about ...

I'm no expert but I'm gonna go with my gut and say that you probably need an audio interface of some kind.

Honestly, the most direct route to learning how to produce EDM or any other music is to simply 1. Pick a DAW (the program you use when producing) 2. Ask your friend Google to find you some basic reading material on synthesis and anything else you have a question about.(compressors, EQing, busing ...

@JTreezy

Are you talking about the sound playing at the beginning while the chick is singing?

I just use mine as an Audio interface and map a few controls to the faders on my controller

Coffee for me.