reason 4 is easy, and if u add me to msn or something i can always help with any problems
watch some youtube tutorials
cubase is good because it allows vst use. If its sampling u after, get reason 4 and recycle though. There is enough good instruments on reason to be able to add something over the top of a sample based beat. Compisitions dont sound as good from reason as they do from cubase though.
p.s if u get reason 4, when u 'send track to audio or whatever' basically when u turn the reason document into wav form, make sure u click 24bit, not 16bit. Then just put into adobe audition or whatever u use and turn the wav form into mp3.