Overview
Dock Layouts let you build your own Sample Vault workspace. Arrange any combination of panels — library, file browser, AI assistant, similar samples, note editor, and more — into a tabbed layout that matches how you actually produce.
Creating a Layout
Start a new layout and you’re offered arrangements built around what you’re about to do — browsing your folders alongside the library, producing with the assistant and notes on hand, exploring the map, inspecting what’s playing, watching it as sound, matching a reference track, sketching a pattern, or organizing what you’re working on. Each one arrives with its panels already in place, ready to work in.
Prefer to fill it yourself? Customize hands over the bare shapes instead — plain columns, rows, columns with one side split, and grids — with empty slots to populate however you like.
Either way the shape you pick fixes the number of slots: swap what’s in a slot, move panels between slots, and resize by dragging the dividers, but the arrangement itself holds. At the bottom of Customize there’s also a fully flexible layout where dragging a panel to the edge of another carves out a new slot — the older behavior, and easy to end up somewhere you didn’t intend.
Layouts save automatically as you work.
Available Panels
Switching Between Layouts
Open the Layouts menu at any time to switch to a saved layout. Switching is non-destructive — your previous layout is always preserved.
Your first nine layouts also get automatic keyboard shortcuts (Alt+1 through Alt+9, in list order); each layout’s tooltip shows its shortcut.
Modifying and Deleting Layouts
- Rename: Open the layout menu, click the layout name, and type a new one
- Reset: Drag panels back into your preferred arrangement and the layout saves automatically
- Delete: Remove a layout from the layouts menu — this does not affect your samples or notes
A layout built from a fixed arrangement keeps its slots for good: a slot you empty stays open and waiting rather than collapsing into its neighbour.
Tips
Create one layout for browsing (file browser + library + similar samples) and another for composing (assistant + note editor + a narrow library). Switch between them with one click as your session shifts from finding sounds to building ideas.
You can open the same panel in multiple panes — for example, two Library instances with different filters applied side by side.
