Is there a "show desktop" view that minimizes all plug-ins at once?

I found the X-ray feature, and that's not really what I want. If I have several guitar tracks, they all have the TH2 or similar, all have a reverb, and might all have a compressor, and certainly vocals will have comp and reverb, not to mention soft-synths like TT1, SI Bass, and possibly SI-drums for their respective MIDI applications. 
 
Is there a command that will minimize everything, and then the reverse of that if needed?

OK is there a master list of key-bindings somewhere so I don't stomp on one when I try this? I imagine "X" is already in use?

What Arachnaut said... go to Preferences, make sure the Advanced view is selected, and down near the bottom you'll find Keyboard Shortcuts. You can use the 'Locate Key' command to see what's already bound by default, but even then you can override these with your own if you want. X is bound to Aim Assist, which is actually kind of useful, but you can change that if you want to use X for X-Ray All. You can also search for functions you might want to key-bind to, most are already bound to things but not all. 

Super swamped and distracted but wanted to toss some suggestions at this.
 
I use the dock for anything I need full access to as I work. No this is probably not EXACTLY what you are looking for (but it strikes me that each Console Strip or Track View strip/entry could really benefit from a Show/Hide button for all FX in the bin... by which I mean you could click it and the GUIs of all inserted effects in the bin would pop up or be hidden... this could however be a massive potential for a resource spike/crash... but I digress).
 
So I've got a track or bunch of tracks I need to tweak FX on. I simply drag the FX GUIs into the dock. Then I just have to press D and navigate to the correct tab to tweak what I need to. If it is a larger GUI than is easily accommodated by the dock then I just drag on that FX's tab at the bottom of the dock which will undock it and now it is in its own resizeable window. Once I am done I drag it back into the dock for storage until I need it again.
 
The problem with this is that if you have multiple instances of the same effect on different tracks then  you have to pay attention to which one you are tweaking. This is why I generally close the GUIs of FX I am not spending a ton of time messing with. Then if I need to access it again it is a simple matter of double clicking on the FX bin entry on the Console strip or in the Track Pane to pop it open again (if I want them all FX on a track open I just double click on them all and there they are and then they can be dragged into the dock for easy access... doesn't take a lot of time).
 
In the dock there is a priority of tabs so if you drag something into the dock it will end up at the end of the tab list. So if you open the GUIs of all the FX on one track and drag them into the dock sequentially then do the same thing for another track you can easily navigate to the set of FX for each track by shuttling through the tabs in the dock (ie: Track 1: FX 1, 2, 3 will be in order... move over a bit and Track 2: FX 1, 2, 3 will be in order).
 
So yeah... spending some time getting a workflow together with the dock is worthwhile.
 
HOWEVER... another option is FX chains which I believe can have all the GUIs contained within the chain pop up at once. So you could put in the effects you need, create an FX chain in the bin (which will put all the FX into a single entry in the FX bin) then I THINK there is a way to just pop it open so all GUIs are available... but I am not sure. It is something to look into anyway and sorry I am muddled on the process (I should be using the buggers more but I've been doing other stuff).
 
BUT the reason I really wanted to bring up FX Chains is you can create ProChannel FX Chain modules and assign the most used controls to knobs on the module. So if you know you are going to mostly be tweaking the Gain, Treble and Bass on an amp sim and the Threshold and Attack on a compressor and the Wet/Dry on a reverb then you could create those controls on the Prochannel FX Chain module and have it all easily accessible by pressing I on your keyboard on a track by track basis. Then from there (because there is unfortunately a limited number of controls that can be assigned to such modules) if you need to get at unassigned controls it is very easy to open up the module and get at the GUIs of the FX being controlled by that FX Chain (which of course can also be saved as a Preset so you can revert back if you want or load the chain into other projects).
 
The other benefit of this Prochannel FX Chain method is it looses (not loses) the FX from the restrictions of the actual FX Bin. This means you can put it anywhere on the Prochannel to be effected by other modules as needed as opposed to the strict "Pre/Post" nature of the actual FX bin.
 
Now the other thing that should be noted is that the included Prochannel modules (such as the QuadCurve, compressors and other gack) should be tried first before tossing things into the FX bin. It just makes things a heck of a lot easier to mix when all you need to do is press I (and if needed navigate to the Prochannel tab or add the PC modifier) and make your tweaks as opposed to dealing with a ton of GUIs. Most of the PC stuff is good. Really good and many of us don't even bother with FX bin stuff unless it is really necessary.
 
Which of course an Amp Sim IS necessary to use the FX Bin or and FX Chain module BUT if you get comfortable with the FX that come in the PC and know how to use them then all of a sudden the ONLY thing in that Prochannel that requires the FX Bin or an FX Chain module is the amp sim which means you can dedicate more buttons to it in an FX Chain PC module (as opposed to having a crapload of other stuff) or it means you can only have the amp sims GUI in the dock or floating or a quick double click away.
 
That is the main idea of the Prochannel. Ease of use with quality effects so you really don't even need to use the FX bin except for very specific applications.
 
Anyway... that may be just blathering but that's how I work these days instead of screwing around with a ton of unnecessary VST windows. I just select the track, press I and 95% or what I need is already there.
 
Cheers.

Been asking for a "show desktop" function since Sonar 1.
 
Seems totally obvious.

Wow, lots to digest here, thanks for the great suggestions.
 
Loving X-ray BUT--it does not work for my Focusrite plugins, they're VST2 (but so is the TH2, and X-ray works for it). There's no button for "give all keystrokes to" on the Focusrite plugins.

And to truncate my earlier looong ass post... I basically just said to look into a few features.
 
1) The Dock (you can drag your VST GUIs into it and order them so they make sense... then you just have to press D to access them... this is generally what I do)
 
2) FX Chains and FX Chain Prochannel Modules (you can make a frankenstein monster of various FX that can be tossed as one entry in the FX bin instead of multiple entries then map out specific controls out of the various FX to a custom GUI... you can also drag it into the Prochannel and then access it from there).
 
3) Learn, live and love the existing Prochannel modules (because more often than not you'll be able to accomplish most mixing tasks there... then you only need to worry about specific effects in the FX bins such as amp sims which means less clutter/keeping track of a bunch of GUIs).
 
So... that was slightly shorter but still long. lol
 
This stuff is all in the online manual so you can just google search it. Cheers.
 

This may not help but there is a command to show the Track View (Alt+1). I don't know of a command to show the desk top except for the (Windows Key + D). That is the Windows desk top.

lf I wasn't clear, I meant the basic SONAR screen, not the actual windows desktop. I just wanted a key that BAM's you right to it. X-ray is cool, but doesn't function w/my Focusrite plugins, they won't X-ray. You can get to certain views immediately like track or console, and that's not bad, so it's getting there. I just wish all my plugins functioned with X-ray.

Very possibly, but again, the TH2 Overloud is in the same category (VST2) and that X-rays just fine. I do notice one thing however--the Focusrite plugins appear in the my Windoze status bar (task bar?) at the bottom when I open them, none of my other plugins do that.

Ah yes... I do seem to recall that the FR plug suite that came on disc with my interface is 32 bit (I think). I just checked and it looks like there has been an update earlier this year to version 1.6 and it looks like it does indeed have 32 and 64 bit versions included.
 
As far as TH2 having an icon in the windows task bar when running as a plugin (as opposed to standalone which would certainly put an icon in the task bar)... I have never noticed that but will check it out. What you may be seeing is simply the application launch icon. When you installed TH2 I think it gives you the option to put pin an icon in the task bar (just like many programs). So perhaps you just never noticed it there when you've have Sonar closed or somehow the standalone version is being launched somehow instead of the plugin version inside Sonar. However the latter requires you own the full version of TH2 I think (which I own).
 
Anyway all that doesn't really help with the original problem aside from maybe getting the FR plugs to respond to the X-Ray feature.
 
Like I said earlier I think you may be stuck figuring out a decent workflow to show/hide things in an efficient manner. Try out some of the stuff I suggested. It becomes second nature after a while.
 
Also you can find a list of keybindings in the manual and I also recommend taking a look at the "Tools" section of the manual which has some more detailed bindings. There are also other bindings scattered throughout the manual that are not on the list unfortunately. They may have corrected this in the X3 manual though as I've heard they updated it and did some work consolidating/cleaning it up to make it more accurate/concise.
 
Cheers.