Reply to Getting started, finally, well, i guess..

Hi guys.

I've been DJing for almost a year now, and i've learned loads of things, played at few big gigs, and i'm satisfied atm.
But i always kept production away, too hard to get into, and no initial pleasure, the first months are tough i guess.
Now that i take music more seriously, i really wanna jump in music production.

The following will be full of "newbie" question that "search" button didn't answer, so if you are ready to repeat the same thing over again, your help is appreciated

So, let's get started :
First of all i'm running Windows 7 on my soon to be called production computer, and i'm not gonna change since i just upgraded it (moar RAM, better CPU etc for Battlefied 3 )

I want to produce electro house (not top 40 shit) and maybe some dubstep.
In my previous attempts to jump in, i tried (illegally but i won't pay until i'm sure that this choice is good) FL studio, Ableton Live and Cubase SX.

I found all of them a bit frustrating. Not being able to reproduce in the software what you got in your head was really frustrating.

What do you believe about Reason ?
I'm pretty lost and don't really know what software fits my needs.


Another question, but this time about hardware. What do i need to get started, aside of a pair of monitoring speakers ?


Again, sorry to bother you all again with the same questions, but i couldn't find what i was looking for in the depths of this community .
If you don't wanna reply, and prefer to give me a link to some thread/website about this, i would still be pleased.

Thank you for reading.