Congrats on your new interface! It's the center piece of any home studio. It opens up so many options for recording. I think you will love it as you learn more about it. It's a great choice of gear as well. For the money, it can't be beat imho. I've never used the daw you picked. Most folks use REAPER as it's free and really good. I'd say download and install reaper and try it to see what you think. Pro Tools is the choice of pro studios all over the world so pro tools free is worth having on your system. Pro Tools is probably the most difficult to use as it's an AVID product and works in a very AVID way. Much the same as the AVID video editors. They have their own quirks but they are very very fast on nearly computer. Pro Tools is worth knowing because so many folks use it. The same thing goes for reaper.
You can download reaper at this link.
https://www.reaper.fm/download.phpI've got reaper, pro tools and Logic X (logic is mac only) installed on my main rigs. Being able to open projects from other people and being able to share projects is something you'll figure out along the way.
I would say download AMPLITUBE right away so you have a good guitar simulator and can record without the need of having an amp! It's free to download and has several free amps/mics/cabs.Here is the download link for amplitube. Plug directly in to your scarlett and launch your daw, then load this plugin on the same track your guitar is on and BAM!! Virtual guitar rig.
https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/ampli...ube-custom-shopMy first interface arrived today and at the moment I'm following the instruction videos. It's really small and a little light but seems very sturdy. So far, it looks simple to use. I'm used to having a software CD included in the hardware box but I feel the way Focusrite did it makes things much easier.
I picked Ableton Live Lite as my DAW, because some forums said it's easier than Pro Tools for composing and that's what I hope to do with it but I see I'm entitled to Pro Tools (it wasn't a choose-one-only thing) and I'll try that too a bit later. People say on the forums that Pro Tools is a standard in the industry, so it's worth learning.
It's a lot of new things bt I'm learning. At the moment I'm neither happy with the purchase nor disappointed. I managed to get it to work and set up the volume level, so it's a start. I'll give it some time and see how it goes. I'll have to switch between recorder devices for recording and talking to people online but it's not a big drawback. I'm now considering getting a small USB-MIDI keyboard and try composing some tracks but not gonna happen anytime soon if at all.