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Hey Arfus,
I've been in your position not too long ago, so I thought I'd try to help you out a bit.
First of all start playing an instrument. That's essential to learning to make music. You can know all the rules and have all the right software but without playing an instrument decently it's very hard to have a feel for how music is actually made. You best chose is the piano, anything is good, but with a piano you learn how to combine two voices. I bought a secondhand keyboard for less than 50 dollars(since I'm Dutch the dollars where Euro's but never mind) and started to learn little songs and tried to make melodies and little pieces by myself. From here on I gradually started to develop. My melodies got better, my knowledge of music got greater, I bought a better keyboard and here I am today still very much developing. And that's what it's about. Just do it! Practice playing you instrument, read about music theory, practice music theory, read about harmony, about the composers you like and if you keep doing this you will develop yourself gradually.
If you have the money get a teacher to learn you how to play your instrument. This will help you significantly.
The software and all that are not that important at the very start. That will come later on. The most important thing in my view is:
Learn an instrument and just do it. Just keep trying and keep developing yourself.
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