WHEAT NEWS JUNE 2026

If you have Cisco 9300 model Ethernet switches and haven't checked their OS versions lately, you should probably do that. Early releases of Cisco's IOS version 17.x have an issue with flooding ports when a topology change is detected. 

Last month, we introduced you to our VMX Total Virtual Mixing Experience featuring mixing resources centralized on one server or appliance and mixing available from anywhere via web browser. By now you are probably wondering if it’s easy to install. The answer? Very. Most of our development time was spent on ease of installation, which required a much smarter setup wizard than, say, a Docker management utility that would require our engineers to set it up for you. Simply click to install the application and log in to a web browser, and you’re done in minutes. Above, as demonstrated by our John Davis from the NAB 2026 show floor, is the VMX virtual mixing experience in a few clicks. 

We seem to be coming out of the “deep compression” era. With affordable archiving available and the impact of streaming across several platforms (not to mention the adoption of lossless streaming by Spotify in late 2025), mastering music has shifted back toward retaining program dynamics rather than buzz-sawing them as before. For those of us who pay attention to such things, what we’re really talking about here is a much more spectral approach to FM/HD audio processing.

Q: One of our stations is adding a new talent team. Most of our talent use VoxPro for call-ins, and we’d like to add one or two more VoxPros for our new talent team. How easy will it be to network them?

If you’re planning to script routines into the studio network to save time, but can’t actually find the time to do it, we have two words for you: Script Wizard. Instead of writing lines of code from scratch, you can simply follow Script Wizard templates and checklists for automating routines, building custom touchscreens and mapping console functions to elements, events or routines in the WheatNet IP audio network.

Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT were asked to run a radio station… || Sounds of Nature || The Lost Radio Station Project