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x1Designer

Your own TOP sound in just
5 steps
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Step 1: Number of ways

Determine the number of ways your speaker box has: e.g., a 2-way box with a tweeter and bass, or a 3-way box with a tweeter, midrange, and bass.

Now follow the colored dots to complete the necessary design steps. Red: Still needs to be done. Green: Done.

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Step 2: Select driver chassis - including tips on enclosure type

You can quickly find the right drivers for your design by searching by type, dimensions, or technical parameters (Thiele Small).

The database comes with 200 pre-installed speakers and can be easily expanded by importing additional speakers from well-known websites such as Loudspeakerdatabase (currently >5000 speakers). Of course, you can also add speakers yourself and access them via the cloud from other computers.

What else?

  1. Graphical sorting by speaker type
  2. Recommendation for enclosure type, such as closed or bass reflex
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Step 3: Volume calculation with parameter transfer

The correct volume is crucial for the sound and depends on the technical specifications of the speaker.

With x1Designer, there is no need to enter the parameters for calculation, as they are automatically taken from the speaker database. With just one click, you can see the results and the simulation shows details such as the maximum membrane deflection or whether air noise is to be expected in the bass reflex channel.

What else?

  1. Enclosure type: “Closed,” “Bass reflex,” “Passive membrane,” “Transmission line”
  2. Consider filling material
  3. Diverse simulations
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Step 4: Crossover design with real Z curves and components

Just as important as the volume is the correct distribution of the music across the individual speakers.

The wizard makes it easy to create filters, impedance correction, or dB attenuators. Top: Our “REALIZER” replaces mathematical component values that are practically impossible to buy, such as 5.27uF, with combinations of commercially available components—this means that the simulated result is much closer to reality and you get a realistic shopping list!

What else?

  1. Filter Butterworth, Bessel, Linkwitz-Riley, Tschebyscheff
  2. Vielfältige Simulation, u.a. mit realem Z Verlauf des Lautsprechers
  3. Butterworth, Bessel, Linkwitz-Riley, Chebyshev filters
  4. Versatile simulation, including with real Z curve of the loudspeaker
  5. Testing the impedance correction circuit with real Z curve of the loudspeaker
  6. Testing the resonance correction circuit with real Z curve of the loudspeaker
  7. Inserting components from the component database
  8. Bill of materials
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Step 5: Enclosure design

Efficient: For the design, the project manager provides all the speakers, including their dimensions and the required volume: it couldn't be easier.

Now set the external dimensions of the box and place the speakers on the front or back using the mouse.

What else?

  1. Subdivide enclosures with automatic calculation
  2. Enclosures within enclosures
  3. Insert speakers directly from the database
  4. Dimensions view
  5. Parts list output
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Have you forgotten anything?

The traffic light system (green/red) in the project manager shows the design steps that are still required (red) or completed (green). The red dots take you directly to the corresponding modules for editing. This way, you won't forget anything!

Start
Start
Fertig
Fertig
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Additional features
Save time and money with the “Filter PreCheck”

Some crossover components, such as bass coils, are expensive. To avoid making the wrong purchase, automatically transfer your passive crossover to the Audio DSP DCX2496 in advance and listen to see if everything fits. If everything is OK, great—if not, adjust the crossover design and transfer the changes for another check. This saves money and time.

x1Designer Filter Audio DSP
x1Designer Filter Audio DSP
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EQ sound tuning with just a few clicks

x1Designer automatically calculates the equalizer tuning setup from measurements of the speaker with just a few clicks. To correct the sound, enter the displayed EQ setup into your EQ or transfer it automatically to Behringer's Audio DSP DCX2496.

Measurement: Red after correction

x1Designer Raumkorrektur
x1Designer Raumkorrektur
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Free cloud: Access your projects from anywhere

Access your projects from anywhere or from multiple computers via our cloud. And all at no extra cost.

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Moduls:
  1. Home (image on the right), access to all modules
  2. Project Manager
  3. Volume calculation
  4. Crossover Designer
  5. Enclosure design
  6. Linearize frequency response
  1. Database driver (Local / Cloud)
  2. Database components (Local / Cloud)
Highlights:

Guided driver selection: The best enclosure type (closed, bass reflex,...) is suggested to your driver selection.

Less copy & paste: Automatic transfer of the driver parameter (Vas. Its,..). into the modules

Choose from more than
5000 drivers
for your project

Import your favourites from more than 5,000 speakers (e.g. loudspeakerdatabase website) into your own database.

Top sound: Assess cone excursion, impulse response, correction of complex impedance etc. for in advance for best results.

Avoid poor filter: Replace calculated values - not available in stores - against real parts and display / correct the influence before you buy components.

  1. Guided loudspeaker box design incl. review function
  2. Driver DB: Link to web page, measurement file and PDF file for each speaker
  3. Driver DB: Powerful filter functions help to find the best drivers
  4. X-Over: Wizard for crossover calculation
  5. Merging of simulation and measurements (x1Analyzer)
  6. Import Thiele Small (T-S) measurements from x1Analyzer
  7. Synchronisation (driver, components, crossover, enclosure, project) across multiple PCs/teams (free cloud service)
  8. Transfer crossovers from project to AudioDSP DCX2496 for acoustic pre-testing
  9. Calculate EQ tuning for frequency response linearization from measurement to the box
  10. Automatic transfer of technical data to the modules, such as loudspeaker dimensions for cabinet construction or T-S data such as Vas, Qts for volume calculation
  11. Automatic setting of the volume subdivision in the enclosure according to liter specification
  1. Place the speaker on the front and rear of the housing
  2. Simulate the non-linear impedance Z of the speaker from the tech. Data (without measurement)
  3. Simulation of the effects on the frequency response due to the non-linear impedance of the speaker
  4. Simulation of the crossover takes into account the ohmic resistance of the coils
  5. Replace calculated components with commercially available ones from the database
  6. Check cone excursion and air velocity in the bass reflex port to avoid design errors
  7. Check impulse response of the loudspeaker in the enclosure via simulation
  8. Powerful curve display with math and cursor, up to 6 diagrams simultaneously
  9. Multi-window design, scalable windows
  10. Parts list output, print output
  11. Cost calculation
  12. English user interface
  13. And much more...

Easy measurement import

Combine frequency responses with the simulation or read T-S measurement results (Vas, Qts,..) for the loudspeaker into the database from x1Analyzer.

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EXPERT functions:

  1. Volume calculation
  2. Crossover design
  3. 2D enclosure
  4. Databases (Driver & article)
  5. Cloud databases
  6. Project
  7. Simulation
  8. Parts list export

PRO: in addition to the EXPERT

  1. X-Over: Acoustic pre-test crossover via DSP
  2. EQ: Optimize sound
  3. Cloud: Share design *)

*) Project, enclosure, filter

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