Wow! A new title! When identifing myself do I have to use the capital letters just as they are? Or is that part not copyrighted by Atterion Ltd. 2005, LLC and PLC?
Now that I've been designated RPME, I won't let you down --- here are links to two good articles on midi basics
part one and
part two. And I've found Tracktion to be not only an unusually user friendly, quick to learn audio/midi recording program but also one that has a good soft sampler as one of the included plugins. You can download the demo version
here.