MADI BLADE bridges the gap between any MADI-capable audio gear or network and the WheatNet-IP Intelligent Network. MADI BLADE can be used to integrate your existing MADI gear to the WheatNet-IP Intelligent Network. And, like all BLADEs, it has built-in features like two virtual mixers that make it possible to do so much more. The MADI BLADE makes it possible to access existing TDM BRIDGE networks from WheatNet-IP control surfaces and other BLADEs, with access of up to 64 channels of audio. As a result, the WheatNet-IP network can now put to use audio from any system that utilizes MADI. Like other BLADEs, the MADI BLADE is connected via Gigabit Ethernet interface for fast network throughput and little to no latency, and includes logic control, utility mixers and a dedicated controller that gives it its own intelligence. Each MADI BLADE is self-aware, and can reconfigure itself in an emergency. This BLADE has 12 GPIO and two eight-channel utility mixers for mixing, summing and controlling audio, which saves in hardware such as distribution amplifiers and gives this BLADE all kinds of flexibiity for controlling audio sources anywhere in the network.