The Drawer

About three minutes. One place at the edge of the window for the things you reach for most.

At the right edge of the project window, just left of the master meters, there is a thin bar. Drag it, or double-click it, and a drawer slides out. The drawer holds one helper at a time, whichever you asked for last: your script, the Cookbook, ClipView or the Keyboard Guide. It works the same in Multitrack Mode and in the Single Track Mode window, and the tracks or the waveform always settle into the room that is left, so nothing ever slides underneath it.

The Single Track Mode window with the drawer open at the right of the waveform, showing a script with one note in amber — The drawer open in the Single Track Mode window, showing the script. The waveform takes the room that is left.

Five Helpers, Five Keys

Key	Opens	Good for
`ShiftV`	The Script	Reading your script beside the waveform, with Follow-Along marking the words you said differently. (In both modes. You can also open it from its bar, or with Script ▸ Show the Script.)
`X`	The Effects Deck	Effect cards you can switch on, stack, reorder, save as a deck and (in Single Track Mode) apply to the audio.
`C`	The Cookbook	Ready-made recipes for the chosen track, heard on your own audio.
`I`	ClipView	The sounds you use again and again: a sign-off, a bed, a sting.
`K`	The Keyboard Guide	Every shortcut in FastTracker, with a search box.

Swapping and Putting It Away

Press a different key and the drawer swaps to that helper. It stays open and the same width.
Press the same key again and the drawer goes away. So does a double-click on the bar, or dragging the bar shut. ClipView and the Keyboard Guide also close with Esc.
Drag or double-click the bar when the drawer is closed and it comes back showing the last Script or ClipView. It never brings back the Cookbook, because the Cookbook is a decision you have not finished.
Each helper remembers its own width. Drag the bar to make the drawer wider or narrower. The Cookbook needs the most room, so it will not squeeze below a certain width; the Script and ClipView can be slimmer.

The Script

Everything about reading, writing and following a script is on The Script Viewer. In the drawer it works as it always did, and its find bar (⌘F) always fits inside the drawer.

The Cookbook

Click a track's name, a clip, or an empty spot in its lane to choose a track, then tap C (or choose Audio ▸ Show the Cookbook). Click a recipe and you hear it on your own audio; Use This Recipe keeps it. The number keys 1 to 8 (the first card is Your current sound), B (Bypass), Return and Esc work as they always have, and Polishing a Voice tells the whole story.

Two things are new with the drawer. While the Cookbook is open, editing is locked, so nothing changes under a recipe you are listening to. And anything that takes the drawer away is a Cancel: tapping C again, Esc, or opening the Script, ClipView or the Keyboard Guide (or the bar itself) all put the track back to its own sound. The favorites bar in the Single Track Mode window has a frying-pan button for it, Show the Cookbook.

ClipView

Tap I. The cards, the tags and how to put a clip in are on the ClipView page.

The Keyboard Guide

Tap K (or choose Help ▸ Keyboard Guide) and every shortcut in FastTracker is in the drawer. The search box is ready for you to type in the moment it opens.

Type what you want to do. Any part of a word will do (limit finds the Simple Limiter), and several words narrow the list (fine tune). Only the matching shortcuts stay.
The Guide opens on Most Used, the shortcuts people reach for first. Jump to a chapter. Eight small buttons, Basics, Record, Edit, Select, Move, View, Single and Project, take you to that part of the list. They step out of the way while you are searching.
Every shortcut is listed in either mode. The ones that only work in the Single Track Mode window carry a small Single Track window tag.
Esc clears what you typed. Press it again and the Guide goes away. K puts it away too, as long as the keyboard is on the waveform (in the search box, K just types a K).

The same shortcuts, with a few words about each, are on Keys to Tap.