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That's unconscionable.   It's also one of the reasons I use Reaper. 

The problem with companies like Cakewalk is that they are really just shells set up as a sales channel for their parent company, in this case, Roland.  Roland is massive, but they're a Japanese company with no corporate governance anywhere but Japan.  Because it is a business, they are looking for all the revenue streams they can get.  Documentation is expensive.  Cakewalk doesn't ship documentation because they want you to buy a book from their bookstore.  If they provide you with good customer service, you're less inclined to do that.

Reaper, by contrast, provides you with a 400 page users guide (http://www.reaper.fm/userguide.php) and a very, very busy (35K users, 1200+ on-line right now) support forum (http://forum.cockos.com/forumdisplay.php?f=20) for the low low cost of free, unless you think all of that is worth the $60 they ask you to voluntarily pay for the same stuff.   

It's one of the great successes in open source software, right behind the Apache httpd server, I think.

Just because it bears repeating....

Then, take all that, stop playing songs, and start writing them.

Yeah, that would bug me, then.

You know, anyone can post on craigslist. 

5's are simply intervals of a perfect 5th.  It's a simple "power chord."  They have no special tonality, but sound awesome with the gain turned up.  There is no canonical definition of two or three notes being necessary for a chord. I prefer three notes for a chord, and two for an interval, but that's just me.

There was a great post by someone here recently on why you want to keep the number of analog to digital conversions to a minimum.   You lose data every time you do it.

Lotta people play that way.  Hendrix did, EVH did, and SRV did right off the top of my head.  It's not according to Hoyle, but people make it work.

Memory is good almost universally.  You will want to watch your buffer sizes, though, as large buffers can also contribute to latency problems.  If you aren't monitoring from the DAW or need immediate feedback (playing a MIDI keyboard, for example) then buffer up. If you are doing those things, then you'll want to experiment with buffer size until you find the one that works for you.

With disks, what matters isn't so much size as write speed.  For recording multiple tracks, it becomes even more important.  Get disks that spin fast,  are on fast interfaces (firewire, USB3, etc...) and are also configurable in Raid 0 configurations for the fastest possible write speeds.

The caveat with Raid 0 is that you will want to record to it, but you wont want to use it for storage.  If any of the disks in the array fail, you lose the data on the entire array.  Just something to keep in mind.

If you're looking to record with it, get one with a USB interface like the 1204FX.  That will let you record digital audio directly, rather than having to wire up another analog signal. 

I like Behrenger kit a lot. It's good value.  I've got a couple of their MIDI control surfaces, and am about to pick up a larger mixing board for the band.

This is fantastic.  Awesome link.

Well, I'm on a Mac and the best synth package available for Piano sounds is Garageband, IMO.    The good news for you is that there is a lot more support for Windows for these things than there is for Mac on the free end.

There are free synths out there, but it does take some digging.  You might try Glen Stegner's MiniMouge.   It is also VSTi plugin, so you can load it up in your DAW and use it that way if you want.

http://glenstegner.com/softsynths.html