How to compose for free? Good free of cheap DAWs and VSTs.

[Lopyt]

Ardour is free and open source,but much more stable than LMMS. There also is Cakewalk, but thats windows only, and Reaper, but that technically does cost money, though its very cheap. For free plugins everyone should have, Surge is THE best synth I've seen, and on top of that, its open source and multiplatform. Vital is great too! For drums I strongly recommend MTPowerDrumkit2, and AVLDrumsx42, both are free and sound awesome, and if you dont like them there are plenty of awesome drum sounds at freesound.org. For amps and stuff I recommend Lepou plugins, Ignite Amps plugins, and Guitarix. Lots of variety and you can get a ton of tones. Other effect plugins I would recommend are the VOS plugins, quite a few very high quality andfree plugins, but windows only and they may only be 32bit. Synthedit is cool too.