I'm not sure, as I say, I'm new to all of this and find the choice of forum categories here quite bewildering.

I decided to post in this category because it seemed to have a wide variety of questions already posted, stuff like requests for advice on stools etc. I felt that, in particular, the last part of my post (requesting pointers towards some simple MIDI software) would be general enough to be suited to this category.

If you feel there's a better category for my problem, please let me know and I'll delete this and repost there.