SYQEL Live quick start: go live on every platform in 5 steps

SYQEL Live puts you on a virtual stage, with visuals that move with your music, and streams the whole show to all your platforms at once. This guide takes you through one full show, start to finish.

1. Sound

SYQEL Live needs to hear your music, so the visuals can move with it.

1. On the Live screen, find Audio.
2. Open DJ audio and pick your DJ software from the list.
3. Check the meters light up, and the BPM appears in the top bar.

More: Make your stream visuals move with your DJ software.

2. Your stage

1. Under Virtual Stage, pick a stage. Your visuals play on its screens.
2. Under Video sources, turn on Webcam. SYQEL Live removes your background and puts you in the booth.

3. Visuals

1. Under Visual Playlist, pick a playlist of visuals you like.
2. Or turn on Auto. SYQEL picks visuals to the music and cuts on the beat.
3. Want a change? Press Next visual. Love the one on screen? Press Pin and it stays.

More: Build a visual playlist and Auto.

4. Destinations

1. Open the Streaming page.
2. Press Add destination and choose a platform.
3. Paste the stream key from that platform’s dashboard, and save it. Keys stay in your computer’s keychain and never show on screen.
4. Before your first stream, press Test my connection. SYQEL Live measures your upload and recommends a quality.

More: Multistream to Twitch, YouTube, Kick and more and Pick your stream quality.

5. Go live

1. Back on the Live screen, turn on Record too if you want a copy of the set.
2. Press Start.
3. You are live. The Streaming page shows your stream’s health, your upload, and how long you have been on.
4. When the set is done, press End stream.

Your recording is in your Videos folder (Movies on a Mac). Analytics shows how the stream went. See See how your DJ stream went.

Tips

• Start your music about 10 seconds before you go live. That gives SYQEL Live time to lock onto the beat.
• Streaming to several platforms needs enough upload speed for all of them. Always run the connection test first.
• Watch every SYQEL Live video in order on the Live tutorials page.

Video transcript

SYQEL Live puts you on a virtual stage, surrounded by visuals that move with your music, and streams the whole show to all your platforms at once!

Here’s how to go from nothing to live in five steps. We’ll make sure SYQEL Live can hear you, set up your stage and your visuals, choose where to stream, and go live.

Sound

First, SYQEL Live needs to hear your music. Under Audio, open DJ audio and pick your DJ software. Here, it’s Rekordbox.

The meters light up, and the BPM appears at the top. That’s how you know the visuals are listening.

Your stage

Next, your stage. Pick one under Virtual Stage, and your visuals play on its screens.

Now put yourself on it. Turn on your webcam, and SYQEL Live removes your background and puts you in the booth.

Visuals

Your visuals play from the Visual Playlist. Here, it’s a playlist of favorite visuals. Or turn on Auto, and SYQEL picks visuals to the music and cuts on the beat.

Want a different look? Press Next visual. Love this one? Pin it, and it stays.

Destinations

Now tell SYQEL Live where to stream. On the Streaming page, press Add destination and choose a platform.

Paste the stream key from your platform’s dashboard, and save it. Keys stay in your computer’s keychain, and never show on screen.

Before your first stream, press Test my connection. SYQEL Live measures your upload, and recommends the right quality.

Going live

Ready? Turn on Record too, to keep a copy of the whole set. Then press Start.

You’re live. The Streaming page shows your stream’s health, your upload, and how long you’ve been on.

And this is what your viewers see.

When your set’s done, press End stream. Your recording is waiting in your Videos folder, and Analytics shows how the stream went.

That’s SYQEL Live. Try it. Get it from SYQEL.com.