As the pop-up browser works now, it is always anchored to a “+” and is ready to add something to your project. I believe results are sometimes filtered to whatever makes sense by default, and then the user can change the parameters. When you type something, this browser shows how many results you have in each category.
Then we have the Browser Panel on the side, which can always take any input and then the user can drag any of the results to the project. This browser doesn’t show the results for each category, which forces the user to click each category (if they aren’t unsure what they are looking for). Each category also shows its locations, which is perhaps something that would get more complicated if all results across categories are shown.
For this “global” feature, the Browser Panel seems more fitting. What do you think?
What I wonder is why and how often a user wants to find “something” by a name. At least in my case in most cases first I think I need an instrument or a clip, etc, and then search for its name if I’m not using the parameter. Sometimes I have wondered “Is there anything ‘Indian’” here, but these are exceptions, and even in those case it was useful to check whether those were presets or clips, because what I would do with the results is very different.