 If you are new to Stream Deck, or maybe you already use a Stream Deck, but feel you're not using it to its full potential, then this series of videos is for you. Hello and welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec, and this is the fifth in the series of videos that I've done, which is essentially a beginner's guide to Stream Deck. So this is probably the final one of the beginner's guide, and then we'll move on to something, a little bit more application-specific and also the advanced guide as well. But so far, we've looked at, in video one, I talked about the different kinds of Stream Deck that are available and essentially what it does. And then in video two, we looked at how to go through the initial setup and set up your home screen and add on some basic actions. Then in video three, we looked at some of the plugins that you can get for Stream Deck and how you can add more sort of application-specific actions to your Stream Deck. And then finally, in the last video, video four, I ran through some different methods you can use to acquire and add icons to your Stream Deck to make it look a little bit prettier. Well, the final thing that we're going to look at today is how you can use the store on the Stream Deck. I've already touched on it on a couple of the videos, but we're just gonna take a little bit more of a look at some of the features of that, and we're gonna move on to the soundboard feature of Stream Deck. Bearing in mind that originally the Stream Deck, as I've mentioned, was designed for streamers, and so often introducing music and sound effects to their streams was one of the use cases for it. So we will just now take a little look at that. So I'm gonna come over to my screen sharing. I've abandoned the little small demo screen that I had and here is my screen that I'm on at the moment on my Stream Deck XL and I've created a little folder. Now, I did mention before, it's always best to use profiles when you're setting up your main sort of screens that you're going to use back in one of the other videos. However, sometimes if you just want a little ad hoc space to do some development on some icons or something like that or some actions, try something else out, then you can just add a little folder. And so that's what I've done here because I will be deleting this after this little demonstration. So if we go into that folder, we've now got a blank space. So we'll add some actions on here in a minute, but first of all, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go for a little look around the store. So I'll come into here. And as always, it's opened up on my other monitor. So often the way. So here is the store. And as I mentioned before, there's nothing for sale in here. It is all free at the moment, but no doubt they will be allowing third-party developers to sell things in here at some point in the future. But it does give you a few different things in here and it's these little articles and links to different things. So they are featuring different developers and different products and things like that that you can use with your stream deck. So that is what is on this little front splash page. Next, we have the plugins. If you remember from the previous video, video number three, I believe, this is where we came to get our plugins. And so we've already touched on this, but just to recap, these are where you can add some specific actions to your stream deck that you can't do with keyboard shortcuts. And it's a case of just coming down here and looking at the different developers and the different applications. So there's the Zoom plugin and so on. There's one for Philips Hue. I don't use Philips Hue lights, but you could add that one in and then just control your lighting setup with a touch of a stream deck button and all sorts of other ones as well. So as I say, we covered that a little bit really, didn't we? So the next one is the icons and we looked at that in the last video, which is a place where you can get different icon sets for your stream deck. And they are split as well by either artistic or for specific games, general or stream deck. So these are from Elgato themselves. This is actually their WaveLink icons. So WaveLink is for the Elgato range of microphones, the Wave range of microphones. So these, as I say, we've already looked at, but the one area or the two tabs that we didn't actually look at before was the music section and the sound effects. And that is because in release version five of the software, the stream deck software, they did introduce this free stock music section. And this allows you to download tracks that you can use freely in your productions. Now, in here you have, I believe, it says 10,000 plus songs and I can just play one of them. So if I just click on the play, you get to preview it. So hopefully that should start playing. And you can search by genre and all sorts of other things. The one thing I will say, if you're trying to make high quality productions, these are not really the best songs. They are a little bit sort of generic and certainly not made by the top artists. They are very much, I don't know how to describe them. Maybe I can play another one and you can see what I mean. So this one's called Morning Song. Let's have a listen. There you go, this one, a new dawn. It's giving you a bit of an impression really, isn't it? Of the sort of music that you can get on there. They are, as I say, very sort of generic and not a great deal of thought or expression has gone into them. Far better than that. I would recommend if you are going to be doing some serious video production and YouTube production or creating any other sort of content, then a far better option for me personally is Epidemic Sounds. That's where I use Get The Music for any productions that I make. And for these videos, the intro music and the outro music, for example. And you can get a free trial of Epidemic by heading over to takeonetech.io slash epidemic. And basically there you've got a vast library of thousands and thousands of songs in all kinds of different genres. You can search by the mood, by the genre, by the artist. And there's some real quality artists on there making some absolutely great music. And you simply pay a monthly fee and then that allows you to use those tracks in multiple different places. So you can use it on all your YouTube videos, in your Facebook videos, anywhere that you're gonna put your content out. The only proviso is that it is one sort of social media profile per platform. So one YouTube channel, one Facebook page, and so on. If you do have multiple different YouTube channels, rather, serving different audiences, then you would need some sort of license for each one. There are different tiers to the membership as well. So you can have multiple ones on different levels of membership. But it is, as I say, a really great resource. And then you know that everything is perfectly legal and copyright free. And you are totally entitled to use that on your productions, as I say. So with that little digression, I'll just come back to here because it is useful to know that there is music and things like that in here. What you might find maybe a little more interesting, depending on the sort of productions you're making, is they do have a sound effect library. And presumably those are a little bit more realistic or true to whatever it is. Now watch this, I'm gonna pick something that's gonna be absolutely rubbish. But we'll find out, lightning bolt and thunder crack. I'm not sure, there you go. It did sound a little bit like thunder and lightning, didn't it? Personally, I'm not a great big sound effects guy, as you might have noticed. If you've watched any of my videos, I don't have lots of swishing noises and things like that on my transitions. But if you did have those sorts of things, then this is where you could get some of those sound effects. So I would certainly say it's worth at least having a look before you do sign up to a subscription service like Epidemic. Maybe you just get lucky and find a piece of music or the sound effect you want. And after all, it is all built in there. And yeah, you can just simply go and just the same as before when we looked at the plugins and the icon packs, you can simply just download them from here. So if I come back out of this for a moment and I'll go back into my little folder and where we would add these to our stream deck is if you come over to this side, you'll see a thing called sound board and then you'll just simply drag on a button here. So this is play audio. And then what you do here is having downloaded the track. In fact, let me just go and download one because it's no point me showing you if I haven't actually done it myself, is there? I have downloaded one before but I just wanna show you the process. So I downloaded that one before. So let me just quickly grab this one. What's this? There you go. Well, let's just take that for the sake of argument. I'm not sure I'll be using it but I'll download it nevertheless. And you should just think about that for a moment. And then as you can see, it's downloaded it. Now this is called Fast Strong Wind Swooshes. So I'll just move this one out of the way. And now where we've added that thing to the sound board, if I come to the file and I click on choose, it should, with a bit of luck, open me straight up into the area where it downloads those files. And would you look at that? There it is. So that has come in here and it is this one. It's automatically opened up in the right folder where Stream Deck has downloaded those two and it was that audio file. So if I click on open now, that has now assigned that audio file to this button and then you've got a couple of actions. So you can say play and stop or you might want it to restart or loop and stop or play and overlap with another track or whatever. You can add a fade. So if you want it to fade in or fade out. So for example, that's how you would do it if you'd got a say intro music or something like that and you wanted to add a fade so that it faded the music out at the end or faded in whichever it was. And then obviously you can change the title of it and you can also adjust the volume. But now when I press that button on my Stream Deck which I'm going to do now, there you go. It's played the sound effect. So that is how you would add, and I'll stop it. That is how you would add sound effects to your Stream Deck. And that is really the last part of the Stream Deck Store. So with that, with everything that we've covered there I think that pretty much wraps up the basic introduction to the Stream Deck. And hopefully now you can see how you can set it up. You've got an idea of how to use that home screen and use profiles to switch between the various views you have just like I have on my screen here. In fact, if I just quickly recap. So here is my profile. So this is, as you can see my TOT Take One Tech recording profile. If I press this home button it will take me back to my home profile. So if I just click this down arrow you'll see all the different profiles that I've got. And then, so these ones in the center here the center two rows are all of my different profiles for my different applications and my sort of work modes. These ones up at the top, you'll know now are my media controls that I accessed from in my previous video from the media controls. And from the, sorry, I beg your pardon from the system controls and the multimedia action. Then I can switch between my spaces here on my Mac. These are just simple shortcuts. So you can see that's my hotkey control right arrows which is between my spaces on my Mac. And then these ones are actually just simply a text. So if you remember the one for writing out text this action from the side I've simply copied in or pasted in the emoji that I want. So every time I press that button it simply types out that single emoji character. Then this one is a folder but he's not actually a folder. It's a, it is a profile that looks like a folder but still, and then this is to open my system preferences and this one is for my dictation. But hopefully now, even though maybe in the beginning this might have all looked a little bit more complex it is actually all quite straightforward and simple. And you should know how to do all of this now from the videos I've produced so far in this series. But if there is anything that isn't entirely clear because often it's the case that when you're familiar with something and you're used to using it there is sometimes things that I forget and I miss out and it's not intentional. I don't mean to leave anything out of these tutorials. I do hope that they are as thorough as possible. But if I have missed anything out then please go ahead and let me know in the comments or if anything could have been explained better, let me know. I'm always happy to improve on the content that I'm producing. But if you have found it useful please go and hit that like button and subscribe to the channel and also share it with any other stream deck users you may know if you think that they would find it useful and I look forward to seeing you in some of the other videos because as I say, this isn't the end of my stream deck series it's just the end of the beginner series. Next we're gonna move on to some of the more advanced videos and also some of the more sort of niche use cases that I have for it. So I'll be making those videos shortly. But in the meantime, there are plenty more coming up next in the stream deck playlist to your right and I'll see you in the next video. Until then, have a great day.