SYQEL Desktop

Tutorials, step by step

12 short videos, about 21 minutes in all. Watch them in order and you will go from getting sound in to recording your first set and making your own visuals.

  1. How to get sound into SYQEL Desktop
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    How to get sound into SYQEL Desktop

    Pick rekordbox, a microphone or a virtual cable as the source, and the visuals follow your music.

    2:02 Read the guide
  2. Control your visuals live: auto, BPM, keyboard and MIDI
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    Control your visuals live: auto, BPM, keyboard and MIDI

    Let it run on its own, change on the beat, or drive it yourself from the keyboard or a MIDI controller.

    4:11 Read the guide
  3. Feeds and playlists: choose what your visualizer plays
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    Feeds and playlists: choose what your visualizer plays

    Choose which of the five feeds play: worlds, shaders, scenes, Milkdrop and image visuals.

    2:04 Read the guide
  4. Send your visuals to OBS: Broadcast, Spout, window capture and NDI
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    Send your visuals to OBS: Broadcast, Spout, window capture and NDI

    Get the visuals into OBS, a projector rig or another computer.

    2:24 Read the guide
  5. Make a DJ mix music video for Reels, TikTok and YouTube
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    Make a DJ mix music video for Reels, TikTok and YouTube

    Press record and your mix comes out as a music video, sized for every platform.

    1:10 Read the guide
  6. Map any visual to a MIDI pad or a key
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    Map any visual to a MIDI pad or a key

    Put a visual on a pad or a key and fire it exactly when the drop hits.

    1:12 Read the guide
  7. Settings: frame rate, frequency reactiveness and themes
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    Settings: frame rate, frequency reactiveness and themes

    Set the frame rate, how strongly the visuals react to each part of the sound, and the look of the app.

    1:06 Read the guide
  8. Brand your DJ set: logo and scrolling text
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    Brand your DJ set: logo and scrolling text

    Put your logo on the visuals and run a line of scrolling text across the screen.

    1:27 Read the guide
  9. Import your own shaders and Milkdrop presets
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    Import your own shaders and Milkdrop presets

    Bring the presets and shaders you already own into the library.

    1:10 Read the guide
  10. Sync: your visuals, playlists and hotkeys on every computer
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    Sync: your visuals, playlists and hotkeys on every computer

    Sign in on another computer and your setup is already there.

    1:13 Read the guide
  11. Make your own visual playlists: build a set list for your gig
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    Make your own visual playlists: build a set list for your gig

    Line up the visuals you want, in the order you want them, before you play.

    1:15 Read the guide
  12. Create your own visuals with AI: shaders and images
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    Create your own visuals with AI: shaders and images

    Describe a look and the AI builds a shader or an image visual from it.

    1:31 Read the guide

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