I want to completely start fresh in a genre I know little about on the production end

I’m a musician that performs/ tours with music that is miles away from EDM but I do have a solid knowledge of theory and some DAWs like protools (although still learning coz protools is awkward sometimes)

Looking at FL studio or Ableton for making techno.

In terms of Techno I listen to a lot of Winson, holy priest and a few others

Also love other styles of edm - Fisher, the prodigy, astrix and other styles and artists but I want to get into making techno as I’ve been going to a lot more raves recently like Teletech

I’ve been leaning towards FL studios as I’ve just heard more about them over the years although I will go Ableton if it’s just better in general for techno.

Have a lot of equipment already - Krk monitors with sub, good balanced headphones for mixing, midi keyboard etc

I mainly need help on what daw to get and where to start (other than learning that daw). Need help on what people normally start with - opening melody/ main melody/ kick,s / bass / sub Bass / finding FX and samples first etc etc. haven t a clue what to start with. I would guess make an opening melody that will be somewhat similar or that goes well with the main melody/ melody at the drop? But honestly that’s a guess

Also worried about using samples and if they are frowned upon (other than if remixing obvs), just from the music that I normally play, it’s all about making your own stuff so using samples will feel strange to me