Comment by fb03
My time to shine! I'm a computer programmer but I've been making music digitally for about 15 years now
The software you want is called a DAW - Digital Audio Workstation. There are 300 DAWs, you need to find the one that fits your 'style' or 'workflow'. There are a multitude of paradigms, as making music is not a single technique.
Once you find your DAW, my recommendation is to just make lots of music. Make the music you imagine in your head. Make the tracks that don't exist but you wish they did. Your first 100-200-300 tracks will all be extremely crappy in hindsight, but when you finish them you'll think they are, at the time, a magnum opus each. Keep iterating that process over and over and after many years, you'll start making something that you'll feel semi-proud enough to be able to show your friends!
This is a track I've done 11 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlkoEI4Sq7w&list=PL2xsoYcYFo...
and this is a newer track, released "only" 8 years ago:
https://soundcloud.com/flipbit03/twothousandseventeen-feat-m...
so you can definitely notice the difference of what 3 years of music making look like in terms of progress
GOOD LUCK!
Your enthusiasm is shining through. For someone wanting to do exactly what you said "just make lots of music. Make the music you imagine in your head." and faced with the issue of "There are 300 DAWs, you need to find the one that fits your 'style' or 'workflow'.", how do I choose? I am not a music maker, I have never made music - I would like to though. I don't even have a style or workflow. I don't know how to start.