controller for production??

[MrPopinjay]

I've heard very good things about reaper.
Also renoise has a good demo, check it out. If you decide you wanna buy it's only 58 euro.

Again I'd still recommend ignoring the controllers entirely until after you've learnt the basics of production. Then you can buy whatever works for you. You produce in a hip-hop style? Buy drum pads. Writing lots of melodies and such? Keyboard. Endless synthesiser tweeking? Bunch of knobs etcetc

[brian_johnstone]

cheers for the input guys, ive given the renoise demo a try and along with the tutorials i found it very easy to use for someone with absolutely no production experience, so looks like im going to buy the full version and go for a keyboard in the future, there really is no need for one right now. thanks again;.

[soundinsurgent712]

Funny it hasn't been mentioned but I'd say go with Reason or (which has been mentioned) Cubuse. I use Reason with all 3 nano controllers.

Just my 2 cents,
Huey