IBC 2026 isn’t until September 11 in Amsterdam, with dates spread across the Jewish New Year and Rosh Hashanah observances. Yet, one longtime U.S.-based designer and manufacturer of pro broadcast audio equipment under a trio of brand names is already looking forward to the event, where it will demonstrate its VMX virtual mixing platform.
For Wheatstone, the team will be offering IBC 2026 attendees an opportunity to learn more about a server-based platform that is web browser accessible, which allows for mixing in all environments on a variety of devices.
VMX can be installed on an existing server or a dedicated appliance and offers a selection of tiles, including basic utility mixers, a simple virtual mixing interface and complete virtual broadcast consoles for the television newsroom or the radio on-air studio, New Bern, N.C.-based Wheatstone says.
“Virtual consoles are accessible through a web browser, making VMX ideal for quickly adding newsrooms, control rooms, voicetrack booths, and remote mixing instances on demand — complete with backup mirroring synchronized in real-time for instantaneous failover in the event of a failure,” the company adds.
VMX is AES67 compliant and a part of Wheatstone’s Layers software-based broadcast suite for virtualizing studio functions as an extension of the WheatNet IP audio network.
Wheatstone will be demonstrating the VMX total virtual mixing experience during IBC2026 at stand 8.A51 along with its WheatNet IP audio network of virtual and fixed consoles, talent stations and intelligent I/O access units.
