This is the exact reason I spent £5000 of my own money 10 years ago to set up a digital studio. I and my co write, record, and produce all our own tracks. It takes only a little time to learn the basics and the rest is left to musicianship of which guess what? You could learn how to play an instrument well enough to record. Do that and you can save you self tonnes of money in the future and have all your own control.

Realistically you could do it for about £3500 now for a good system and guitar.

The basics you need are:
Medium spec computer (£600-800)
Music hardware like Digidesign Rack 003 (£1000)
Monitors - Mackie or alike (£400)
Keyboard - Any midi device (£50)
Pre amp - £200 - Mine is a dbx
Sounds - Kompact (£600)
Mic: Decent compressor mic £300
Guitar: Decent one £500

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