Tally, audio and control
ON Comms joins the gallery you already have: your vision mixer’s tally, your desk’s audio, and the keys you already press.
Check your gallery
Press what you have. Each answer says how it connects — on a cloud site, or on your own server.
Vision mixer and tally
Audio
Keys
Crew devices
Your galleryOn a cloud site
Press what’s in your gallery.
An answer appears here for each thing you press: whether it works with ON Comms, and what connects it.
Camera Tally
The whole screen red when your camera is on air, green on preview — on the phone, and on the wrist.
- Blackmagic ATEM: program and preview for the M/E you choose, keyers counted, with the switcher’s own input names.
- vMix: its tally subscription, over its TCP API.
- TSL UMD 3.1, 4.0 and 5.0: ON Comms is one more display on the truck’s tally system. It listens, over UDP and TCP, and never sends; TallyMan or the vision mixer adds its address as another output.
- Mapped the truck’s way. Which colour or tally bit means on air is a setting, not a guess — Ross sends preview on tally 1 and program on tally 2 — and 5.0 screens are kept apart.
- Safe when it goes quiet. A camera nobody has heard about reads unknown, never “off”; a switcher that stops answering turns its panels to NO TALLY, not a stale red.
- Where it runs. ON Comms Server reads the switcher itself. A cloud site uses ON Comms Tally on a Mac or Windows PC at the venue, which sends 3–5 MB in a three-hour show.
Desks, Dante and programme audio
Any line in and out of real audio: a sound desk, a Dante network, a programme feed.
- A device, then a pair or a single channel, each way, with its own gain in dB. Out and In can be different devices.
- Core Audio on a Mac, WASAPI on Windows: on a Mac, Dante Virtual Soundcard is one more device.
- Built into ON Comms Server. For a cloud site, ON Comms Bridge at the venue, on a Mac or a Windows PC, carries it.
- A mix-minus for each line, as for any four-wire: a desk that sends a line its own audio back lets that person hear themselves.
- Not yet: ASIO on Windows.
Keys
Talk from whatever is under your hand.
- Stream Deck, or any Bitfocus Companion button: each person has a push-to-talk key of their own, and a button presses, releases or toggles any of their lines.
- A keyboard: hold 1 to 9 for the lines on the bank you are on, Space for all of them.
- Apple Watch: one big key, and the crown picks the line.
- Key banks each person arranges for their own screen — fewer keys on a bank make them bigger.
See it on your own show.
We’ll walk your engineers through ON Comms on a call — your gallery, your network, your questions.