If you are actually interested in getting deeper into music production I would recommend Reaper. If you are only doing electronic/sample music FL studio is good for that, but is very limited for recording/mixing.
For recording and mixing Reaper is great. It's as good as pro tools for recording and mixing while 10 times cheaper. You can try it out for free and the license for students/non-commercial use is only like 70 bucks.
If you have a mac, logic pro is the easiest and probably the most common music production tool. I personally don't like it at all but it's very easy to use and is good for writing music.
I used audacity to record audio, but I don't even think it has the capability of production
it looks interesting, I actually need it for commercial use though, so I'd have to get that $200 version.