I’d assign Sara to assigning things in Reaper and go play bass…earn that candy.
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I accidentally figured out how to do it. I don’t know why, but I right clicked on something in Piano One, and up popped a little window. Just for the heck of it I slid one of the sliders and voila, it connected. I think I made a major breakthrough lol. Time for a 
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If you haven’t already, check out ReEQ, it great and it’s free!
https://cdm.link/2020/07/reeq-free-reaper-eq-keeps-getting-better/
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Surge and vital are probably the best free synths.
Check out these videos for some good info:
https://youtu.be/K4LnW2hOAus
https://youtu.be/49B7VsxDVVI
and this list https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-best-free-vst-synth-plugins-2020-wavetable-fm-virtual-analogue-and-more
Iris2 is good and you can often get it for so cheap it’s almost fre (and sometimes free with another purchase). https://youtu.be/Q_jJytVNoKE
A subscription to Kiloheartz phaseplant+plugins and content banks is $10 a month with no commitment required and is a really good deal.
I have so much stuff I haven’t even tried lol.
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The only problem with Komplete is that you have to spend quite a bit of money to get the version that allows you to use free/cheap instruments. I almost bought it earlier this year when they had a big sale but I managed to resist… have to save something for next year 
I bought Arturia Analog Lab V a few months ago and haven’t even tried about 90% of the sounds in it yet 
There are now enough words in this thread that I completely don’t understand that I want nothing to do with a MIDI keyboard.
Thank goodness.
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I don’t blame you actually, it’s a rabbit hole filled with pot holes and land mines.
Fortunately for me, I haven’t fallen deep enough into the hole to be downloading and collecting a zillion plugins for all kinds of effects and different instruments. I have my piano and organ, and the bass guitar one for transcribing, and I’m done. I just need to get up to speed on what I’ve got.
I saw that and it’s a great video but keep in mind he is using a MKIV version and the MKV has more functions.
Unfortunately, the MKV is relatively new and there is not a lot on YouTube for it yet.
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I realize that, but it’s all I can find right now so I just have to deal with it. At least I’m learning SOMETHING from it and its better than NOTHING.
That’s putting it lightly 
Now you need to get yourself a breath controller… actually, forget I said anything about that. or soon you’ll be selling your basses to feed your plugin addiction 
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WTF is I-lok???
I ask this because the M-Audio MIDI keyboard came with software that includes a bunch of cool sounding plugins, but to install them you have to have an I-lok account. I signed up for one, wary about giving any private information, and now they’re trying to sell me a USB dongle. This sounds like a scam, but it came from M-Audio so I have to think it’s somewhat legit.
So, now I have this I-lok account, and every time I want to install one of those plugins, it tells me to go to my I-lok account to obtain an authorization code.
Is this something common with these DAW plugins?
Yup!
Thank you for the links. 
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I-Lok is license management software widely used by music software. You don’t need a dongle, you can bind it to the local machine.
I don’t have a dongle. I kind of feel like I should but don’t.
And yes, literally everyone hates I-Lok.
+1, it’s a fantastic deal, plus they kick back a coupon for $100/year, and you get everything. All their stuff.
I’ve bought it all at this point but the $10 deal is tough to beat. Phase Plant is my go-to synth, it’s really really good. And Multipass is fantastic.
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I-lok software is a frustrating, annoying software licence manager that replaces the the hardware USB dongle. The dongle is probably more practical if you move between multiple computers.
I hate crap like this, it just makes software a pain to use and companies should quit stuff like this. People are going to pirate the stuff anyway and you should never make things more difficult to use for your paying customers.
Here’s a list of the companies that use I-lok https://www.ilok.com/#!ilok-publishers
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~20 years ago the company I worked for used some CNC software that not only had a stupid, onerous process for registering the software, it was invalidated every year when the clocks went back and you had to go through the process again 
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I dunno - Glenn Fricker seemed like a fan in his pro tools vs reaper video…
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Damn @skydvr I’ve been pulling my hair out try to figure out why that I-lok sounded so familiar, and you just solved it. Thank you!
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