Since my primary interest right now is to produce trance music (probably one of the most melodic genres in EDM) I'm thinking of starting out with FL Studio together with something like the reFX Nexus2 VST (
Nexus2 summary | reFX). Do you have any thoughts on that combo? To be honest, I have not really looked much at NI yet, so will check out the choices there as well. Along with that, I'm really only looking to get a keyboard and studio monitors at this point. Do you generally recommended these days sticking with an external audio interface vs. an internal audio card (e.g. like the M-Audio 2496)? Thanks again.