Sonidata: UCS Field Recorder is built to help you maintain a professional audio archive on the go

Ensure every sound you capture is perfectly tagged, organized, and ready for high-level indexing the moment you get back to the studio

Designed for sound designers, field recordists, and audio professionals who demand precision from their mobile workflow.

RECORD WITH THE END IN MIND

PRO AUDIO ENGINE & MONITORING Record to professional standards with uncompressed, lossless audio up to 48kHz / 24-bit, or lightweight compressed formats

Check your levels before you roll using the pre-record Monitor Mode featuring a responsive visual meter and precise digital gain control.

NATIVE UCS TAXONOMY Tag your sounds using the Universal Category System (UCS) as you record

Keep your mobile files perfectly aligned with the organizational structure of your main studio server from the very first take.

VOICE SLATE & SMART TEMPLATES Keep your eyes on the environment, not the keyboard

Use the Voice Slate tool to dictate the FX Name field instantly using speech-to-text

Speed up repetitive labeling with customizable FX Name Presets that optionally auto-fill your current location.

ADVANCED METADATA MANAGEMENT

METADATA CLIPBOARD & BATCH EDITING Rapidly apply tags across multiple files

Copy a complex metadata structure from one recording and paste it onto others with a single tap

Need to clean up an entire day's work? Use Batch Edit to adjust descriptions, tags, and mic perspectives across bulk files before exporting.

EMBEDDED PHOTOS & SMART LOCATION Snap visual reference photos of your recording environment and let the app auto-fill your GPS coordinates

Sonidata embeds this artwork and location data directly into the files (via ID3v2 and BWF chunk metadata) so visual context travels everywhere the audio goes.

AUTO-FOLDER GENERATION Let the app handle the filing

Sonidata automatically roots your recordings into folders that precisely mirror your main archive's category hierarchy.

THE SONIDATA ECOSYSTEM

EXTERNAL RECORDER COMPANION Leave the notepad behind

Log takes, assign UCS categories, and write precise descriptions on your phone while your Sound Devices, Zoom, or Tascam rig is recording.

DESKTOP METADATA SYNC Use the companion Sonidata Embed desktop app to merge your mobile session logs seamlessly with your heavy-duty audio files

Inject the granular metadata you captured on your phone directly into the Broadcast Wave (BWF) chunks of your external recorder's files in seconds.

ARCHIVE-READY EXPORTS

UNIVERSAL DATABASE SUPPORT Export dedicated metadata CSVs engineered to allow industry-standard library management software (like Soundminer or BaseHead) to instantly ingest your UCS categories, custom descriptions, and GPS locations.

COMPLETE PACKAGE SYNC Export clean ZIP bundles linking your high-fidelity WAVs, embedded photos, and metadata CSVs in one flawlessly structured package

Filter your exports visually by calendar date, category, or location.