Wheatstone took home a big win at the 2026 NAB Show this week. The company’s VMX Mix Engine Platform earned a Product of the Year award at a ceremony held April 22 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
The NAB Product of the Year awards are judged by a panel of industry peers.
VMX earned recognition in the audio production, processing and networking category.
Wheatstone built the product as a centralized mix engine platform. It supports multiple studios from a single system, consolidating mix engine functions and dynamically allocating shared resources across a network. That’s a meaningful efficiency gain for broadcasters managing distributed operations.
The platform also debuts a line of virtual broadcast consoles. Users access them through a web browser via HTML5. That means engineers can mix audio from laptops, tablets or desktop computers — no dedicated hardware surfaces required.
For broadcasters watching budgets and building flexible workflows, that’s a compelling pitch.
VMX made its debut at NAB 2026 alongside the award announcement.
It’s a notable recognition for a company that has long been a fixture in broadcast audio. The award signals that the industry is paying attention to where infrastructure is heading — scalable, software-driven and increasingly untethered from the equipment rack.
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