What free software would you recommend for composing music on a Windows laptop?

Depending in what form you want to create or compose:-

Musescore - traditional "sheet music"
https://musescore.org/en

Midieditor - for creating MIDI music files
https://sourceforge.net/projects/midieditor/

Tracktion - A full DAW, a recording studio in a software package
https://www.tracktion.com/products/t6-daw

All totally free....Show more

Not really my thing, but LMMS is pretty popular.

https://lmms.io/...Show more