what program would be good for writing music (UPDATE: new DAWs to consider)

[Tactical Nuke]

If no one has any problem with it I'm going to strike off Noteflight, MuseScore, Finale, Logic Pro X and GarageBand.

I don't have Mac and I have standards.

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[Tactical Nuke]

Narrowed down to five options.

I need people to vote because I need a clear second opinion. Right now, FL Studio is winning, but that's not a big enough sample.

By the end of the week I'll have narrowed it down to three options based on voting.

[otto-san]

i've worked with fl studio a fair bit, and i've had the opportunity to work with protools recently as well. flstudio definitely seems a lot more intuitive and straightforward at a superficial level. protools has some layers of complexity that i'm sure allow it to be a much deeper program on more advanced levels, but it seems to me like flstudio is sufficient for at least the level of work that i would do. i'm definitely not experienced at all with either, but that's my impression

also flstudio would be cheaper probably so that's a plus

[Trogtor]

this guy makes orchestra music with Fl studio + plugins (and i think maybe some other software)

https://www.youtube.com/user/dummeh/

each vid tells you what everthing he uses

[ShadowsfeaR]

Narrowed down to five options.

I need people to vote because I need a clear second opinion. Right now, FL Studio is winning, but that's not a big enough sample.

By the end of the week I'll have narrowed it down to three options based on voting.

Not enough people know about virtual instruments and jump to FL because it's a beginner's "DAW". Spitfire and 8Dio will outperform FL's stock instruments in every level possible. You can have both (Albion and 8Dio's program won't run without a host DAW), I think FL has VST support, but you'll need Kontakt 5 to use either Albion or 8Dio's stuff. There's a long program chain to use this stuff but it's the only stuff that can pass as real.

[Couatl]

all of this is true except the beginner DAW part >>:((
if you're planning on using either of those two plugins you can only use DAWs that support VST or support Kontak 5 natively (Ableton and FL Studio are the only two I'm positive can do one or both of those things)

[Tactical Nuke]

UPDATE: I recently had a talk with the music composition teacher at my college, he recommended several programs to me and mentioned a VST that pretty much all the professional movie composers use that I forget the name of

if anyone could figure that out I'd be a happy man

here's the list of programs he gave me (his handwriting is stuffty so bear with me)

• Cubase
• Sonar
• FL Studio
• Reaper
• Finale
• Sibelius

I'm planning on getting whatever program for Christmas, so the sooner I sort this out the better