Many controller keyboards and other music gear comes with Ableton Lite. For free. We have copies here in our house from past M-Audio and Fender amp purchases. My son uses it. The lite version. Is plenty to give you a taste for whether you want to dive into loop based composition. I would take Floyd’s advice above. Just using real band snippets is not going to instantly modernize the sound. So much of modern loop based music is production focused composition and arrangement. Someone posted a link to a video where a gentleman did an eye opening deconstruction of a recent Ariana Grande song. Tons of thought and dare I say talent went into the whole. You are a gifted songwriter and performer, you can likely learn how to do this but it will take a fully different skill set to develop to pull off the modern approach. Again Floyd’s advice above seems fitting. Also check out FL Studio for loop focused DAW.

Edit. I found the link to the Ariana Grande song deconstruction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBDJDZAo41c

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