Just Gettin' Started, What software is good for starters Options

[monkeyman]

I am interested in creating music and would love to start creating more again. However, I don't have much software. I am mostly interested in electronic music, and don't really see the possibility of the need to use real instruments. Therefore, can anyone recommend a decent starting point. I have heard of a software program called Reason. Would this be seen as the best piece of software for an electronically focused musician ?

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[charlieb]

But now for some bad news...

Turns out you can't use ReWire in OS X.

Rickenbacker,
Your statement about ReWire as quoted here, leads me to understand more about what I don't know!

When I looked up ReWire it said:
A typical application supplying audio via ReWire would be a software synthesizer or a multimedia authoring application with audio output. Examples of an application receiving audio would be a software audio mixer, processor or recorder.

SOOOOOO
1. I am a bit confused as to how and why I would need ReWire.
If I get a synth and a sequencer program is ReWire meant to enable these two different programs working successfully together?
2. Am I understanding the following properly yet primatively?–
Synth soft is used to generate different kinds of sounds and different patterns of sounds interacting.
While
Sequencing software is used to cut, paste, shake, bake, shape and craft an actual piece of music, but is not meant to be the software that generates a full range of possible "sounds".
It seems to me that a number of products claim to do both. Is this so?
For instance, I am guessing that this is what the Logic Big Box bundle is meant to do.

Thanks for your support and patience.

Regards,
charlie