XSCACE Network Controller is the Mac and Windows desktop application built for professional configuration of the Xylem DSP amplifier series — the tool an integrator actually opens during commissioning, not a simplified remote for end users. Everything a multi-zone architectural audio install needs — crossover, delay, EQ, routing, room correction — lives in one native desktop interface. Here's what each part of the app does.
Live DSP Editing
Crossover frequencies, output delay, and parametric EQ all adjust in real time over the local network — no reboot, no save-and-restart cycle. During commissioning, this is the difference between hearing the effect of a change immediately and hearing it after a 30-second amplifier restart, repeated for every adjustment across every channel. Live editing turns commissioning from a batch process into an iterative one.
X-Sense Auto EQ: RT60 Measurement and Room Correction
The desktop version of X-Sense goes further than the mobile app's single-room calibration: it measures the room's acoustic response with a calibrated sweep, including RT60 reverberation time, and automatically generates corrective parametric EQ curves to flatten frequency response at the listening position — across a multi-channel, multi-zone system rather than one streaming amplifier. This is room correction built for the commissioning stage of an install, not a post-purchase convenience feature.
Auto Delay: Time Alignment to 27ms
Speakers at different physical distances from the listening position produce sound that arrives out of sync — a real problem in any multi-speaker zone, and one that degrades stereo imaging and clarity even when every individual speaker is otherwise correctly calibrated. Auto Delay automatically calculates and applies channel delay for time alignment, up to 27ms across all output channels, correcting for exactly this without requiring the integrator to manually measure and enter distances per channel.
Channel Routing and the Frequency Overview Graph
Full control over input-to-output routing, gain staging, and polarity inversion per channel covers the wiring-level configuration a multi-zone system needs — not just which speaker plays which source, but the gain and polarity details that determine whether a zone sounds correct or subtly wrong in ways that are hard to diagnose after installation. The Frequency Overview Graph shows a real-time visualisation of the combined effect of every EQ and crossover setting, so the cumulative result of several stacked adjustments is visible on one graph rather than inferred from memory.
Factory Presets and Custom Saves
XSCACE-tuned factory presets, optimised per speaker model, give a correct starting point rather than a flat, unvoiced default — useful when commissioning a system where every zone uses the same XSCACE speaker model. Custom presets can be saved by name, which matters most on multi-unit projects: a configuration proven correct in one room can be applied to an identical room elsewhere without re-tuning from a blank slate.
Network Controller at a Glance
- Live crossover, delay, and parametric EQ editing with no reboot required
- X-Sense Auto EQ with RT60 reverberation measurement for multi-zone room correction
- Auto Delay time alignment up to 27ms across all output channels
- Full input-to-output routing, gain staging, and per-channel polarity control
- Real-time frequency overview graph showing combined EQ and crossover effect
- Factory presets per speaker model, plus named custom preset saving
- Native macOS and Windows apps with background auto-updates
A Typical Commissioning Workflow
In practice, an integrator commissioning a multi-zone Xylem install works through Network Controller in roughly the same order every time: confirm channel routing and polarity first, since a wiring-level error here makes every later step meaningless; apply the factory preset matched to the speaker model in each zone as a starting point rather than tuning from flat; run X-Sense Auto EQ per zone to correct for the room's actual acoustic response, including RT60; then run Auto Delay across the zone to time-align every speaker to the primary listening position. The Frequency Overview Graph stays open throughout, so the cumulative effect of the preset, the room correction, and any manual EQ adjustment is visible on one curve rather than tracked mentally across four separate settings screens.
Once a zone measures correctly, saving it as a named custom preset means the next identical zone in the same project starts from a proven configuration instead of the factory default — the difference between commissioning a ten-zone whole-home system in an afternoon versus a week.
Network Controller ships free with every Xylem 2, 3, and 4 DSP amplifier and is available for Mac and Windows download from the software page.