@Humpleupagus

So hey 24 hours in and I'm doing MUCH better. I settled in on a windows workflow with Jeskola Buzz, since a 2022 64 bit version was released thats really impressive for freeware. It has pretty good VST2 and VST3 support and I've been find a bunch of good free plugins and finding better plugin sites. I just need a midi keyboard now and maybe some midi from drumkit control. I have this program called Hydrogen Drum Machine that is basically an open source modtracker, sampler. But it's stand alone, which sucks, and the only method of integrating it is with JACK, which is utter shit on windows.

The thing about Hydrogen is I can build very high quality drum loops using any sample I can find and I've already found a shitton from Goldbaby ( https://goldbaby.co.nz )

I would just have to record the loops, pattern and them using them in the other DAW.

Anyway I think I'll just report my progress to you from time to time, pick your brain.

I think the route I'm going is going to give my music more of a retro taste with a lot these free synths have minimoog, 808 and other old school synth vibes, but I think I can levelerage that into something cool. Being a DJ helps too.