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[Tumetsu]

Okay, I have been thinking about I would like to finally try my hand on making some music. Problem is that I don't know which tool to use.

So far I have tried FLStudio, AnvilStudio, Nanoloop and few others. FLStudio's interface intimidated me more than Blender from 2005 and I couldn't really make head or tails about it. AnvilStudio is more intuitive since it creates midis and works by notation, but to me its interface felt rather clunky to use :S Nanoloop was rather alien to me too though I didn't play too much with it.

So question is which tool you think would be best and easiest to learn for complete beginner like me? I have basic knowledge about notation and can play piano with one hand. As of now I don't care about the music format, midis and mp3s are okay both.

[Udderdude]

MODPlug Tracker is pretty easy to set up and get going with.

http://www.modplug.com/trackerinfo.html

[JackMenhorn]

Everything is going to have a curve.  I would pick up GarageBand or REAPER, both are low cost and have docs/tutorials to help you out.  You should care about midi/mp3 as you will want something that can handle BOTH MIDI and audio files.

[PostPre]

Pick up Ableton, Reason, Logic, or Reaper and stick with it. They do everything.

[Mittens]

I started in FLStuio, I thought, aside from having a bat-shit-crazy interface of 1000 floating windows it was fairly easy to drop in nice sounding synths and filters just to build confidence and feel like you're making rad music despite being a noob.

So in that sense I think it was good to begin on, but now that I've moved to Abelton Live I wish I had started on it, everything about it makes sense, is neatly organised and efficient
however, it is obviously harder to make decent sounding tracks at first, because synths and filters/effects have to be set up more manually, it's harder to be a preset-whore

[albinoechidna]

Really depends on what you're looking to do.  But I would agree with PostPre that picking up a standard DAW like Reason or Ableton would be the best start.  Better than a tracker, although I don't really like working with trackers so that might be kind of biased.

[Tumetsu]

Everything is going to have a curve. -- You should care about midi/mp3 as you will want something that can handle BOTH MIDI and audio files

Of course. I don't fear having to learn a new tool, however so far each tool has felt rather unintuitive to me, perhaps because they differ so much from other computer software.

Also, at the moment I'm just trying to get something simple going on, to just dip my toes into music making. I'm looking for something which is easy to use, rather than all-in-one do anything package.

I'll take a look into Reaper and Ableton now.