JensMadsen wrote:Learning to make music isn't easy on any DAW, it takes a lot of patience.
This. If you're not in it for the long haul, spend that £300+ on beer like a sensible person.
The more intuitive packages out there to my mind are Reason, FL Studio and Ableton. But they're intuitive in very different ways - I, for one, never got a usable note out of Ableton. Download lots of demos, and whichever one has you merely screaming at the monitor on your first try rather than putting your fist through it is probably a keeper. The most important production techniques as far as making decent tunes goes are common in their key respects to all DAWs, and more or less equally fiddly and irritating across the board.
Top end things like Logic and Cubase have a much more complicated architecture that is supposed to be quite as adept at recording a full band as laying out a half-step drum-beat, with the result that the latter is correspondingly more of a pain in the ass. If you put the time in, however, you will obviously have more artistic options at the end of the day.