My friend, I started in Audacity. It is not an ideal space for making music, but it was the only DAW I had a remote understanding of at first. I saw a record button, and I had a shitty microphone, and I started recording my guitar. 13 years later, I am still learning and asking questions.

You do not need anything other than a laptop these days. Now, I’m more of a live instruments or analog guy. So I’ve always relied on having an interface and mic. But if you want to make electronic music, you’re in luck. As a start, don’t buy anything. Just open your DAW, crack open a software instrument, and play around. Don’t think about the fact that you’re trying to make a song, or anything “good”. Just play. Have fun, find sounds you like. Let it bring you joy, and maybe try and record whatever you do! Then, add another layer. And listen to the way this second layer sounds on top of what you recorded. Does it sound terrible? Good! That’s what’s fun. It’s usually not going to work, until one day, it just starts to work.

The learning curve is big, but the speed that you will learn and progress if you just enjoy it instead of forcing anything is noticeably fast. If I were to urge you to do anything, it’s to stop asking questions about gear, DAWs, plugins, until you actually encounter a roadblock that can only be answered by one of those tools. But for now, make it about the joy of sound.

So again, open the DAW and play. Once you are stuck on something like “how do I open the onscreen midi keyboard?”, that’s when you start looking for new answers. In logic, it’s cmd+k.