SYQEL Studio

Tutorials, step by step

Start with the quick start. Then 11 short videos, most under a minute, show you one job at a time: the library, your music, the Effects Board, making visuals with AI, and playing them in SYQEL Desktop and SYQEL Live.

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SYQEL Studio quick start: create and customize audio-reactive visuals with AI

SYQEL Studio quick start: create and customize audio-reactive visuals with AI

Find a visual, let it hear your music, choose what animates it, make one with AI and save it for SYQEL Desktop and SYQEL Live.

Step by step

  1. How to prompt SYQEL Studio's AI builder for custom DJ visuals
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    How to prompt SYQEL Studio's AI builder for custom DJ visuals

    Write the prompt in five parts, press Send, then connect each effect to the kick or the snare on the Effects Board.

  2. Edit a visual with AI and keep your board settings
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    Edit a visual with AI and keep your board settings

    Switch off New idea, say what to change, and the rest of the visual, board included, stays as it was.

  3. Make music visuals with AI
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    Make music visuals with AI

    Press New, describe the scene, pick Drive or Follow and press Send. Studio checks it on your music and fixes it on its own.

  4. Save your visual and play it in SYQEL Desktop
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    Save your visual and play it in SYQEL Desktop

    Press Save, name it, and it is waiting under My Studio visuals in SYQEL Desktop on the same account.

  5. Show your visual full screen with Present
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    Show your visual full screen with Present

    Press Present or P to see only the visual, moving with your music. Escape takes you back to the editor.

  6. Let your visual listen to your music
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    Let your visual listen to your music

    Open a song file, share a tab or your screen with its sound, or use your microphone.

  7. Sync visuals to the kick drum: pick the instrument for each effect
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    Sync visuals to the kick drum: pick the instrument for each effect

    On the Effects Board, move an effect to the kick, the snare, the vocals or the bass, and set its strength.

  8. Follow mode: give every instrument its own shape
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    Follow mode: give every instrument its own shape

    Pick a shape, a colour and a strength for each instrument, and decide which ones lead.

  9. Compare your custom visual with the original
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    Compare your custom visual with the original

    Flip between Default and Mine while the music plays, and Reset when you want to start over.

  10. Save and load presets on the Effects Board
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    Save and load presets on the Effects Board

    Save a look as a preset, bring it back in one click, or import a mapping file someone shared.

  11. Find a visual in the library: search, filters and favorites
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    Find a visual in the library: search, filters and favorites

    Search by name, filter, star your favorites, and open any SYQEL visual to customize it.

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