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voltronic:
A friend just alerted me to this new product:
https://www.konos-sound.com

The website is pretty light on details, but there are some specs in this PDF:
https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/6194a85a1d8e150086168cd1/61a976f0d7312b0ba972fc0a_Dotterel%20Konos%20Datasheet%20-%20FINAL.pdf

Significant financial backing:
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2203/S00510/dotterel-raises-3m-for-sonic-breakthrough-tech-konos-microphone.htm

Here's more on MEMS tech:
https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/sensor/mems-microphones/mems-microphones-for-consumer/
https://www.mouser.com/applications/mems-microphones/
https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/an-introduction-to-beamforming-with-mems-microphones

Trew Audio LA is demoing the Konos at an open house next Monday, if anyone is in the neighborhood:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWIdVvwIPPtPmZq9ma7LXDRMRry_rO4XQmGKEsiSBW6UzB3w/viewform

voltronic:
Schoeps has offered a solution for this application for a few years now. If I were in the market, I would certainly want to test-drive the Konos against the SuperCMIT.

https://schoeps.de/en/products/shotgun-microphones/cmit-series/supercmit.html

rocksuitcase:
Really cool design concept. Thanks. 

Gutbucket:
I wonder what the effective order is in relation to its sensitivity pattern selections, the quality of the off-axis nulling, how well artifacts are suppressed, how noisy, how natural it sounds..

Interesting choice in that it appears to provide simple analog output only.  Sort of like an old-school LD condenser mic that provides variable pattern via a required outboard power supply in that regard - a cool option for simple use, yet unfortunate if that means the pattern cannot be altered after the recording has been made.  Maybe USB output connection provides that capability.

The second output (labeled null, equating to everything outside of the primary output pattern) is one of the more interesting things.  I've thought about that in regard to ambisonic recordings, but don't know of it being implemented in any ambisonic tools.  It sort of falls into my philosophy of recording sound from all directions collectively, via discrete segments designed to combine gracefully, as a useful way of deconstructing the acoustic upon recording with sufficient degrees of freedom that it can be reconstructed in a perceptually convincing way for improved reproduction.  Similar to the OMT implementation of a rear facing microphone channel, but differs from ambisonics and my broader approach in not being innately spatialized in a stereo or multichannel sense.  A good test of this will be if summing the primary and null outputs produces a true omni.. and if that sounds identical across all three choices of pattern.

morst:
Wow, mounted on a UAV (drone) this could be amazing for capturing public events.
It can cancel out the sound of the drone itself with its multiple element "beamforming" type tech.

edit:
haha just listened to the demo. No way is this good for music. Good for rescuing people though!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQsaxvfpBNk

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