ai wrote:Do you have any samples of some songs you made?
Sure. My regular site is down, but for the time being my most recent song is up
here. I'll upload a few more this weekend; not many of my works have gone beyond the "handful of random notes" stage in the five or six months since I started, but as time goes on it does get easier for me to finish a whole song; I'm gaining momentum, so to speak.
Also which programs do you use, just curios?
Logic Pro exclusively. Be warned, it's Mac-only, so if you're on Windows you might instead use Reason, Cubase, FruityLoops, or some combination thereof. If you're on Linux, the usual solution is Rosegarden plus an external synthesizer (although there's also a slim chance you'll be able to compile Ardour and/or Hydrogen).
Alternatively, there's a totally different style of software that I've never been able to figure out for the life of me how to use; but this elysis guy uses it himself and gets pretty professional results. Look into
tracker software if you're interested; most of it is free, or at least very cheap compared to the massive buckets of cash you're likely to drop on mainstream sequencer/DAW software.