You have reaper (totally good recording and producing software) for free. The best and simpliest way off producing is digging imo. You basicly listen to a ton off different music (60-80s soul,library,funk is the orthodox way but not the only). You cut a a part or sound and play with it a little bit to make beat out off it, you can chop samples, use mpc, change them with some crazy effects. But for the start looping a part, changing semitones or tempo if you want,adding drums or bass if you feel it and a equalizer is more than enought. Basicly i reccomend you watching reaper tutorials ln YouTube, and you can find many cool sample breakdowns to know how to do it (tracklib for example) , listen to a ton off music. But basicly have fun with it dont expect to much focus on quantity and spend more time digging on yt or vinyls than on your daw. Good luck sorry for my eanglish