midi equipment is cool, but you can get a program called Reason which does all that for you! You dont even need the equipment, but it sounds exactly the same! It is an excellent program, but alas $1000 AUD to buy :P I think I'll get some turntables first!
About the unprotected tracks: I won't be downloading/uploading my music onto p2p networks anyway...so I wont be worrying about that.
Fruity Loops I have heard before, but the program Harrison mentioned first was perfect! It is capable do doing all that stuff as well! It's excellent!
Cheers for the help people!