Music software, beat slicers, looping software etc..

[HyperTek]

So anyone got any recogmendations? I wanna slice parts out of some mp3s to sample beats... then use those sections and loop em to stretch into a full lenght beat.. then record some vocals seperately and paste it over that beat lol...

I know back in teh day i used to play with FL stupio and Sonicfoundry acid but i dont think acid is used anymore.. I tried reason but it looked too complicated to bother spending the time learning.. at least with acid it was easy to learn...