Blackmagic Fairlight Live: Standalone Audio Mixing System (NAB 2026)

About this episode

The episode discusses the Blackmagic Fairlight Live, a standalone audio mixing system showcased at NAB 2026, designed for live audio production.

Make a Logo on Fiverr Blackmagic Brings Fairlight Into the Live Audio World Blackmagic Design has been steadily building Fairlight into its larger production ecosystem, and at NAB 2026, the company showed off a major step forward: Blackmagic Fairlight Live , a standalone audio mixing system built for live production. Fairlight has long been known as the audio engine inside DaVinci Resolve, giving editors and post-production teams tools for mixing, EQ, compression, gating and audio cleanup. But this new version pulls Fairlight out of Resolve and gives it a dedicated live workflow, designed for people who need to mix audio during events, broadcasts, houses of worship, livestreams and video productions. It Looks Like a Console, But the Mac Does the Heavy Lifting The big thing to understand about Blackmagic Fairlight Live is that the hardware panel is a controller. The actual processing runs on a computer, with Blackmagic showing the system running through a Mac at NAB. That means the console itself is not a traditional all-in-one audio mixer with every input and output built directly into the back. Instead, your audio I/O connects through the computer using interfaces, virtual sound…

People in this episode

Host: Jeffrey Powers

Topics covered

• audio mixing
• live production
• technology
• broadcasting
• audio workflow

Keywords

• Blackmagic Fairlight Live
• audio mixing
• live production
• NAB 2026
• DaVinci Resolve
• audio workflow
• broadcast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blackmagic Design

Products: Blackmagic Fairlight Live

Books & works: DaVinci Resolve

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