[RWP] Need a quick-start guide, please.

[Matthew Bullis]

    Hello, I'm new to this program and its overlaying access plug-in. I 
downloaded both Reaper and the access overlay, and have installed and set it 
up so that I was able to make a test recording. However, I couldn't get the 
concepts of arming tracks, inserting tracks, and basically made a test 
recording by trial and error. I downloaded a Reaper userguide, which is a 
huge document, and read quite a bit of that. However, it's into chapter 3 
and is just getting started telling about how to start recording tracks. 
It's a little too much info up front, and so that's why I've joined this 
list. I've been a Sound Forge user for ten years, and about eight years ago, 
I used a program called NTrack, which worked pretty well. The version I 
bought years ago doesn't work with Windows 7, and I'd have to pay to upgrade 
to the latest version, and so I thought I'd try Reaper. Does anyone plan on 
doing an audio overview of the program, or otherwise can anyone walk me 
through step by step how to record a track, name it properly, then record 
another? I don't do any midi, since I'm an acoustic musician. I don't think 
I'd use any plug-in effects other than some chorus and maybe a mono to 
stereo expander, if it has that, since I like a nice wide sound, and 
instrument signals are usually mono. All of the sound card settings seem 
fine, and so it's just the interface which needs to be dealt with. I like 
the f12 training mode which the Reaper Access provides, but I just need a 
quick-start on this. I'm using the latest version of Jaws, by the way, and 
do not use a mouse. So it's keyboard only.
Thanks a lot.
Matthew