What's some good (preferably free) Music creation programs?

[Badger]

I'm looking into starting trying out to compose music of ambient sorts and background types of music, I thought I'd ask you guys of a good program to start off of or learn to use.

any suggestions?

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[otto-san]

openMPT seems p good and i think some people here use it

[AfterShock]

Like composition and musical notation?

Sibelius is the top dog, but costs money. There's also an HD sound pack to make everything sound good. There's a trial version as well.

Finale is another less used but still good. Don't have experience with this, unlimited trial, sounds stuffty, probably has an HD sound pack.

[TrainandSpacelover]

nanostudio is pretty good, but i don't have much experience with it. it's a mobile device port so the controls can be a little weird, but overall (with the experience that i do have) i like it. it has some nice sounds as well

[Katadeus]

I mostly use the demo version of FL Studio, and it suits me just fine.

[Jairo]

linux multimedia studio

[-Setro-]

linux multimedia studio

also known as LMMS
this is like fl studio, and it's great. i've used it before.