I'll try a different tack. You've told us what you want to do, but a few warning bells are going off in my head.
It sounds, if I have read it right, that you want to produce music? You've started having singing lessons? Your idea is very common and great - but you may not have considered a few things.
Why do you not already have a mic, to record the snippets of songs you have already composed? The usual path is one of two basic starter routes.
1. You sing a bit and maybe strum the guitar or have a keyboard of some kind that makes your kind of noises.
2. You've downloaded some tracks, produced by somebody else and are singing/rapping already - using these. You might even have started editing on your mac?
I have a few suggestions.
Number 1 - a skills audit. Write down what you can already do. Really basic stuff. Take the singing.
Can you sing? If you hear a favourite track of any style - can you replicate what the singer is doing? Is it in tune, does it have the right rhythm? This is so critical for rap. With melodies, you can sing ahead, or behind the beat as a stylistic 'feature'. With rap - you MUST have the feel. The right singing teacher for your style is critical. This person if they are honest, knows how good you can be in a heart beat. The good ones will rcognise ability, and teach you to get better - but they will also tell you if your dream is pointless. Some people just don't have great voices. I can sing, but I am NOT a singer. I can sing in tune, sing with rhythm, but the result will never be special.
Then we have musicality. Can you manage pitch properly - either by playing the right note on a keyboard or singing the right pitch. Do you have instinctive music theory? are you self-taught on guitar or keyboards, so if somebody starts to sing, you can work out the key and join in?
If you walk past a piano - can you bash out the start of Rush E - it's a great test of pitch and rhythm, and loads of people can pick it up - but loads simply cannot.
You are sort of talking about a food recipe - you want to make it, so are reading the books on which oven, which tools, which flavourings - but what is your taste like? Do you already know what goes badly with beef, but great with chicken?
You talk about the DAW - but most people like different ways of working, so Reaper and Reason, popular with some, are hated by others. Cubase - my DAW of 30 years, is damn awkward to learn, but very clever - but lots of people hate it with a passion. Microphones are the same. My favourites might be awful on your voice.
Music Technology is a simply huge subject, and the learning curve steep. Youtube, and go in person courses are frequently awful, because they dal with averages. I taught it for years and the typical people on it did really well. Those at the edges less so - so if you are into rap, jazz, classical, experimental it may be difficult to progress in a course built around EDM, or even roack and pop.
We were alwys over-subscribed and we asked a filter question to basically get rid of the non-serious applicants. "Great - thanks for coming. Did you bring with you a recording of something you've done?" All the people who were keen and had ability would say "it's not very good, I don't have much gear at home" and play the music - often it was crude, and technically weak, but yoiu knew there was talent in there - and that is what the technology does - let's your creativity expand. Those that said effectively "that's what I'm coming on the course for" didn't get on it. My favourite trick to check weak applicants was to enquire what they played. Being able to play something was 99% normal. often they could strum a few chords, or play drums, or something - so I'd pass them my guitar hanging up in the office, that I always kept out of tune. They'd pick it up twang it, and grimace, and sort it. The playing wasn't important at all. A guitarist that could not tune a guitar without a tuner, or even an app on their phone rang huge warning bells.
Every person who sings or plays can do these things to some level already. Those that cannot are not going to do well, or have staying power.
We don't need to know - but where are you on this stuff? wanting to do music may be totally impossible to some - and it is not something everyone can learn. Schools are pretty good at spotting music talent - did they spot you?
Learn on the headphones before you spend a lot of money!
