Overview
- Blackmagic announced Thursday that the Blackmagic Ambisonic Microphone uses 108 digital MEMS capsules and onboard processing to deliver seventh‑order ambisonic audio as 64 channels of 32‑bit audio.
- The company says Apple licensed the microphone array geometry and ambisonic encoding filters while Blackmagic handled the engineering and design.
- A single USB‑C cable supplies power and carries the multichannel stream to an URSA Cine Immersive camera, an iPhone via the Blackmagic Camera app, or to a computer for live mixing with Fairlight Live.
- Blackmagic lists December 2026 availability with U.S. pricing shown as $1,695 excluding duties and an alternate US page price of $1,909, and it is offering a macOS beta Ambisonic Recorder for recording, monitoring and metadata tools.
- Key acoustic and hardware details remain unpublished, including self‑noise, max SPL, frequency response, dimensions and Windows support, and a planned USB‑to‑SMPTE‑2110 converter for broadcast IP workflows has no date or price yet.