SCHEMA: DARK Explained

If scoring action films and video games is your thing, Native Instrument's SCHEMA: DARK is the musical playground of your dreams. In this SCHEMA DARK video course, virtual instrument guru Eli Krantzberg walks you through this plugin front to back, showing you everything you need to know to start incorporating it in your very next production. You'll learn how to work with the four separate layers (each with their own 16-step sequencer), numerous macros, slices, filters, effects, and much more! These videos are for new SCHEMA: DARK users.

Videos

• Welcome to SCHEMA: DARK (06:46) - Get an overview of what this instrument does, how it works, where things are laid out, and what it sounds like.

• Two Browsers in One (06:03) - Learn how to use the Loop browser and Settings browser and how to modify, save, and recall your own customized settings.

• Reordering Slices (05:42) - Explore the very interesting permutations possible when either randomly or manually reordering the slices in the Pattern Edit panel.

• Cutoff Panel (06:15) - Hear how the Edit panel filter cutoff values interact with the Filter macro and follow along as a layered bass line is created with customized filter settings.

• Decay Panel (05:14) - The decay time and modulation range of each step is modified in this panel. The values are then easily offset via the Tails macro knob.

• Volume Panel & Gates Macro (04:16) - Learn how to add dynamics to each step using the volume panel and then the accompanying Gates macro to offset the predefined level amounts.

• Pitch Panel & Tuning Macro (04:16) - See how to generate some wild, wonderful detuning effects using the Pitch panel combined with subtle modulation ranges and the Tunings macro.

• Layer Settings (06:02) - Learn how to control the playback speed and direction, sample direction, and rest skipping separately for each of the four layers.

• FX Page (05:20) - Explore the send/return effects as they are set up on each layer of a multi-layered sound.

• Saving Your Customized SCHEMA: DARK Snapshots (03:17) - Learn how to use the Kontakt 7 snapshot system of file management to save and recall your own customized sounds.

• Key Mapping & Output Routing (05:29) - Discover how to control various components within SCHEMA: DARK from your MIDI keyboard and how to route the four layers to individual outputs within your DAW.