ye i use reason and had no musical experience pretty much and i found it easy u just gotta give it a little time...pretty much u create a redrum and load a drum kit which gives u all ur drum and bass sounds except for like a bassline...then the nn-xt (under create also), has most of the sounds u will use for hip-hop style beats...u choose a sound on the nn-xt for ex, play wat u want on ur keyboard with the sound, record it, and then put ur drums in...or vice versa...then u got the subtractor (also under create) whcih has like more bass and synth patches to load...its pretty easy a lotta big time producers starting to use it since its got everything they need on the computer prettty much...lemme know if u got any questions