After now selling most of my gear and starting from scratch basically, I'm trying to decide what I want to do more. I don't know much about production, but I know I eventually would like to learn to produce ambient/downtempo or "chill music" essentially soundscapes. I also would like to mix this kind of music, but I also still enjoy melodic progressive house and some trance. But definitely my interests lately are more towards ambient and downtempo, since last year I got more into it and now I'm almost exclusively listening to that style, with some older trance and progressive house.

I am saving some money and think by the summer i'll have enough for either a decent laptop with Ableton Live and a MIDI Controller, like a MIDI keyboard, or CDJ 200s, DJM 400 and an inexpensive laptop. If I don't go for the CDJs and the mixer, i'll most likely get a better, more expensive laptop that I can use for many purposes. Basically i'm just looking for people's thoughts about what they feel might be my best bet when it comes to producing and mixing ambient music, and or using CDJ 200s and DJM 400 and mixing that stuff, as well as the dance stuff. I know this might sound like a question more for the production forum, but I am more knowledgeable about DJing/mixing than music production, and don't know how hard it is or what exactly would be better for mixing less dance orientated music.