I was going to dabble in the art of music making, and have no clue where to start. The first question is what music maker/ editor, is best for making Synthwave style music? If there are any other tips or suggestions, i’d love to hear them.
check out any variety of trackers out there.
I personally recommend Renoise, it's pretty good but you're gonna have to pay for that one (unless you use the demo). Well worth it though, incredibly powerful.
For free trackers there's always Psycle or whatever is available out there for free. It's pretty easy to find free trackers.
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Trackers can be a bit intimidating to get started with though. The quality of sound comes down to what plugins you use. DAW's that are easy to use and get into would be Ableton Live for the reason that it has so many users and there are so many tutorials for it on youtube.
FL studio, though it has its very own internal logic compared to most other daw's. It is very suitable for loop based music. It comes with some mean plugins, right out of the box.
I currently use Presonus studio one 2. It has a nice and clean interface and drag and drop functionality. I find it very easy to use, but I came from Cubase. Most Daw's with the exception of trackers and FL studio has a similar style GUI and approach. The plugins that come with it is tolerable but you need to get a few synths and a virtual sampler because the ones in the program is just poor.
For a complete solution in a box there is propellerheads reason. Some very good plugins in it with a GUI that looks like a rack tower, to which you add sound units. You edit in a piano roll like in most daws, but unlike most daws you dont have your screen cluttered with plugins. They are nice and tidy, all in a fixed position in the rack and you can turn the rack around and drag wires between them to create some pretty crazy sounds. Liam Howlett from The Prodigy made a couple of albums with it. So don't confuse 'simple to use' with 'amateurish'.
Reaper is a free DAW. Lots of users. Lots of tutorials. Similar to other daw's but with a few tricks of its own up its sleeve. The plugins that come with it are shit for the most part but they have a deal with a couple of plugin developers who sell their plugins at a solid discount to users of Reaper.
Cubase, the godfather of modern Daw's. It can do everything and you don't need that much. It has a bunch of left over bloat for recording artists that are entirely irrelevant to electronic musicians (Which is why I went with Studio one after 10+ years with cubase)
All this is assuming that you use windows/mac, though I think FL and Reaper has Linux versions or have them under development. Also you need to learn how to use sidechain compression, since it is a stable of the synthwave sound.