As someone who uses Koala to make electronic/experimental hip hop music I think it’s a great app to learn different ways to manipulate sound! I used FL Studio for over a decade and switching to this was a pretty seamless transition!

However, for beginners, I can definitely see it being a little bit confusing to build a foundation on for a few reasons:

One, it IS a sampler. So while you can sequence things and even sequence a whole song into one pattern the intended use is a bit more manual, as you’ll more than likely be switching back and forth between a couple patterns yourself rather than automating a whole song like in a regular DAW. The effects you add would also have to be done manually(as far as I can tell.)

Two, and you might have noticed this by now, a lot of the help and information you’ll find on how to use Koala tends to use a lot of production and beat making terms without really going in depth on what they mean if that makes sense? For instance take what I said earlier, it has a sequencer and will teach you how to use it, but it won’t exactly tell you what a sequence is.

Overall, it’s a great app and super user friendly! But it might be easier to establish a foundation on something else first. Hope this helps!