MADI

Multichannel Audio Digital Interface. Originally specified by the Audio Engineering Society (AES) as AES10 in 1991. This unidirectional digital audio interface shares the same core 24-bit audio and status data format as AES3, but with different 'wrapping' to contain 56 or 64 synchronous channels at base sample rates, or 28/32 channels at 96kHz. It can be conveyed over unbalanced coaxial cables, or via optical fibres.