lol let's see...

1- Create Blank Session

2- Click up top "Track" then "New" and make some stereo tracks (or mono)...you can put the number of tracks then click the "+" and add another type of track like "Master Fader" (that will give you the levels of all the tracks together so you need that).

3-Click the record button on a track to light it up red, then you can either hit Numpad 3 to start recording or click record and play on the Transport Window (looks like a tape recorder with stop/play/record/etc).

4-Click "View" and you can get to your Mix Window (looks like a Console Mixer), go back to your Edit Window (where you see your recordings), and sometimes the Transport Windows might not be there and you can check that so it's there and put it where you want.

5-In the Mix Window, you can click and insert FX on each track and on the Master Fader itself too which is cool.

6-You can double click on the colors in the Mix Window and saturate them and make it pretty and change important tracks to pink or something lol. It actually helps when you get a lot of tracks and have to put the Master fader in the middle of everything and start to get lost (you can just drag them around).

7-Click (I think) the dropdown is "Edit" and you can "Select All" before you bounce the mix. I think that's "File" dropdown, then "Bounce To Disk" (same thing as "Export Audio" in other DAWs).

Then somewhere in between all that, if you have problems then you can click the dropdown for Options and set the Playback Engine buffer larger if you get plugin happy.

I probably messed up somewhere but just click around if you get the concept. One thing that is a little weird is that when you go to do punchins or edit you have a bunch of ways to do it. I just use Cakewalk most of the time because it's so much easier lol.

BUT...you will see a little box on the top left of the Edit Window that shows 4 modes like "Slip/Grid/etc" and it's easier for me to put it in slip mode if I'm trying to cut out a noise before I start playing a part. If you need to make a cut, hit "B" and it will split the track there then you can delete parts or "Slip" your WAV over the noise or screwup and try it again. In Cakewalk, you can literally just record right on top of your track (and it will not even mute the old one) so it's so much easier to crossfade and punch in. There's a Punch In mode in Pro Tools, but it has to be set at a certain point, just a pain. I learned to play better because I thought I had to use Pro Tools for a while and didn't figure it until I got done with classes then I still didn't like it for much other than dialing new tones, mixing and reamping stuff. Maybe 10 is much better.