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All modules Module 09 · Intercom

A full matrix intercom,
in your browser.

Ports, partylines, IFBs, ISOs and groups — a software matrix on your SYGNAL server, or remote control of a hardware audio matrix for ultra-low latency. With a software keypanel and per-key mixing, in browser or on phone and tablet.

The software keypanel

Every key, every level — under one panel

Contribute in the browser or in the phone and tablet app. Organise keys with router-panel-style categories, set custom colours and images per key, and mix the audio level of every key independently, so each operator sets their own balance.

  • Per-key audio level mixing, with talk, listen and reply
  • Custom colours and images on keys, grouped into categories
  • In the browser, or in the phone and tablet app
  • Latching, fleeting or auto press modes on talk and listen
  • A Reply key that talks to your most recent caller
  • Cue buttons and cue lamps on any panel
Key types

Build the comms plan your show runs on

Ports, partylines, IFBs, ISOs and groups — organised into router-panel-style categories, so a busy panel still reads at a glance.

Ports

A direct line to a single destination — a camera, a producer, a remote contributor — with independent talk, listen and level.

Partylines

Shared conferences anyone can join — control, crew, floor. Add and drop members live as the show moves on.

IFBs

Interruptible foldback to presenters and talent, with priority duck so a director's cue always cuts through the programme mix.

ISOs

Isolated listen feeds — monitor a single source clean, without it bleeding into the rest of your comms.

Groups

Address whole teams with one key — "all cameras", "all crew" — and SYGNAL fans it out to every member.

Categories

Colour-coded, router-panel-style grouping with custom images on keys — so even a hundred-key panel reads at a glance.

Software or hardware matrix

Run it in software, or drive your existing matrix

Host the matrix in software on your SYGNAL server for a fully self-contained system, or have SYGNAL remotely control a hardware audio matrix for ultra-low latency. Either way it's the same panel, the same plan and permissions.

  • Software matrix hosted on the SYGNAL server
  • Remote control of a hardware matrix for ultra-low latency
  • Local 4-wire I/O over any major audio protocol
  • Remote 4-wire contribution over any supported video or audio transport
  • Phone lines over SIP (G.722, G.711, Opus) as router sources and destinations
One system, not a stack of boxes

Wired into the rest of SYGNAL

The intercom shares the same routing fabric, permissions and automation engine as every other module — so it behaves as part of the whole.

Under the keys

The detail a comms engineer asks for

Cues, press modes, IFB sources and port processing are set per key and per port.

Cue buttons and lamps

A cue button is aimed at ports or groups and carries no audio. A cue lamp lights red while any cue button aimed at its port is on.

Press modes and Reply

Set talk and listen to latching, fleeting or auto, per key. Auto latches on a tap and is momentary on a hold. A Reply key always talks to the most recent caller.

IFB sources

Give an IFB its mix-minus sources and set how far each one dims while someone talks. Pre-hear gives the engineer a listen of their own.

Port processing

A noise gate, a compressor and a three-band EQ on each port, with metering on sources and mixes.

Crosspoint matrix

The engineer’s view. Every comms crosspoint sits on a grid on the Routing page, next to the audio and video routers.

Across the system

Put a comms panel on a multiviewer tile or in the audio mixer. Automations have a comms key trigger node and a comms key display node.


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Hear it for yourself

Book a walkthrough with the engineers who built it, or open a keypanel in the live demo.