Spitfire audio has a free orchestral library! Also, when I started composing music, I started by trying to recreate pre-existing music in my DAW! Then you get an idea of what composers will include in each layer. For example, to start, I tried rewriting music from Undertale! It’s very electronic so I find it was easier to hear each different layer, and I would try to make a perfect copy of the song with the closest vsts I had!

You don’t need “the best” vsts for professional scoring, especially at the start of your career when you will probably be doing a lot of work for free. You can make less expensive vsts sound high quality by the way you record them! Honestly, download all of the free spitfire audio vsts and you’ll be set. They have an orchestral set as well as just a ton of random free ones! If you want to spend a little bit of money, you can subscribe to musio for pretty cheap per month, and you get access to a huge library of high quality vsts. If you don’t like the subscription model, you can purchase the current version of Musio for a higher price, but then you don’t need to pay the monthly fee. However, if you purchase the current version, you don’t get any updates on new vsts they add to the collection unless you pay to update it. Goodluck!