Version 15.0.0
June 2015
This file contains information about LabVIEW support for the NI Sound and Vibration Toolkit 2015 and the NI Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite 2015. This file also provides you with help resources you can use while working with the software. Refer to the National Instruments Web site for a comparison between the Sound and Vibration Toolkit and the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite.
This file contains the following information:
NI Application Software Support
Product Security and Critical Updates
Redistributing Executable Sound and Vibration Applications
Automating the Installation of NI Products
How to Use NI Software with Microsoft Windows 8.x
NI Software Support for Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003
The NI Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite and the NI Sound and Vibration Toolkit provide comprehensive measurement, analysis, and vizualization tools for all audio, noise and vibration, and machine condition monitoring applications. Based on an open-analysis capability and a flexible measurement library, the NI Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite and NI Sound and Vibration Toolkit present a unique software-based measurement approach to creating customized applications. Learn more about the sound and vibration software at ni.com/soundandvibration.
The Sound and Vibration Toolkit/Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite has the following requirements:
Refer to the LabVIEW Readme for additional system requirements and supported operating systems for LabVIEW 2015.
The following table lists the NI application software versions, including service packs, supported by the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite. If you are not using NI application software, refer to Microsoft Visual Studio Support.
| NI Application Software | Versions Supported by NI Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite 2015 |
|---|---|
| NI LabVIEW (32- and 64-bit) | 2015 |
| NI LabVIEW Real-Time Module | 2015 |
Note: Sound and Vibration Express VIs are not supported in LabVIEW (64-bit).
You must be logged in with administrator privileges to install the Sound and Vibration Toolkit or the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite.
Note You cannot install the Sound and Vibration Toolkit 2015 on a computer that has the Order Analysis Toolkit 2.1 or earlier installed. You must purchase and install the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite 2015 to use order analysis functionality with the Sound and Vibration Toolkit 2015.
You can install all of your LabVIEW products—including the Sound and Vibration Toolkit and the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite—using the LabVIEW 2015 Platform media. Refer to the LabVIEW Installation Guide on the LabVIEW Platform media for installation instructions and system requirements.
To request additional LabVIEW Platform media, refer to the National Instruments website.
Note If you purchased this product with an NI Software Suite or NI Product Bundle, use the installation media that shipped with your purchase to install this product.
Complete the following steps to install the Sound and Vibration Toolkit or the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite:
Visit ni.com/security to view and subscribe to receive security notifications about National Instruments products. Visit ni.com/critical-updates for information about critical updates from National Instruments.
The Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite includes the following new features:
Support for LabVIEW 2015 does not remove previously installed support for LabVIEW 2014 and earlier.
Use these advanced VIs in applications where state must be managed explicitly. These VIs are set to shared-clone reentrant and can be effectively used in dynamic dispatch VIs which must necessarily use shared-clone reentrancy.
These udpated examples use the Stimulus-Response Test VIs to configure and generate test signals for stimulus-response measurements and use the Buffer VIs to access and parse data in parallel code. These examples serve as starting points for stimulus-response test applications with modular code segments for:
Use these VIs to calculate the averaged spectra such that the signal to noise ratio is improved at reference frequencies.
Use this VI to dynamically update the signal configuration. This can be used to create functions that can be reconfigured interactively and programmatically.
The following sound and vibration sample projects were updated. Instantiate a new project from the LabVIEW New Project dialog. The source is available in the LabVIEW Sample Projects and Templates folder.
You can access the software and documentation known issues list online. Refer to the National Instruments Web site for an up-to-date list of known issues in the Sound and Vibration Toolkit and the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite.
You can access a list of bug fixes online. Refer to the National Instruments Web site for a list of bug fixes in the Sound and Vibration Toolkit and Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite.
If you want to redistribute executables built with the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite or any of its components, you must purchase the appropriate NI Sound and Vibration Software Run-Time License. The part number for the NI Sound and Vibration Software Run-Time License is 779875-35. Contact National Instruments to purchase the NI Sound and Vibration Software Run-Time License.
Refer to the LabVIEW Help, accessible by selecting Help»LabVIEW Help in LabVIEW, for information about the Sound and Vibration VIs.
To access the sample projects and templates from the New Project dialog, select Sample Projects in the left pane and navigate to the project that best matches your application requirements.
You can find LabVIEW examples for the Sound and Vibration VIs using the NI Example Finder. Select Help»Find Examples to launch the NI Example Finder. On the Browse page, the Sound and Vibration example VIs are located in the Toolkits and Modules»Sound and Vibration folder.
You also can find LabVIEW examples for the Sound and Vibration VIs in the labview\examples\Sound and Vibration and the labview\examples\Order Analysis directories.
You can automate the installation of most NI products using command-line arguments to suppress some or all of the installer user interface and dialog boxes. However, starting with the August 2012 releases (products using NI Installers version 3.1 or later), you may need to perform additional steps before or during a silent installation of NI software.
If the NI product you are installing uses Microsoft .NET 4.0, the .NET installer may run before any NI software installs and may require a reboot before the installation of NI software begins. To avoid a .NET reboot, install .NET 4.0 separately before you install NI software.
For more information, refer to the following KnowledgeBase articles:
When you install National Instruments software on Microsoft Windows 8.x, you will notice a few additional tiles in the Apps view, including shortcuts to NI application software products such as NI LabVIEW, Measurement & Automation Explorer (NI MAX), and NI Launcher.
NI Launcher helps you find and launch installed NI products. It provides you with a method of finding NI products similar to the Start menu in previous versions of Microsoft Windows. To use NI Launcher, click the NI Launcher tile in the Apps view. NI Launcher launches the desktop and opens a menu containing a list of NI products. Click any NI product to launch it.
| Note NI MAX does not appear as a desktop shortcut when installed on Microsoft Windows 8.x. You can launch NI MAX either from the Apps view or from within NI Launcher. |
For convenience, you can pin your most-used NI applications, such as MAX, to either the Start screen or the Taskbar on the desktop, as necessary:
| Current Application | Icon Location | Pin to Action |
| Windows 8.x Desktop | Desktop Taskbar | Right-click application and select Pin to Taskbar |
| Windows 8.x Desktop | Start screen | Right-click application and select Pin to Start |
| Windows 8.x Start screen | Desktop Taskbar | Right-click application and select Pin to taskbar from the menu bar on the bottom of the screen |
If you want to find a particular application or related files, such as documentation files, from the Start screen, you can access all installed files from the Apps view. To get to the Apps view, right-click anywhere on the Start screen and select All apps (Windows 8) or click the down arrow on the bottom left of the screen (Windows 8.1).
For more information about NI support for Windows 8.x, visit ni.com/windows8.
National Instruments Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite will drop support for Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 as of July 1, 2016. Versions of Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite that ship after July 1, 2016 will not install or run on Windows Vista, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003. For detailed information about NI application software product life cycles, visit ni.com/info and enter one of the following Info Codes:
| Product | Info Code |
| NI LabVIEW | lifecycle |
| NI LabWindows™/CVI™ | cvi_lifecycle |
| NI Measurement Studio | mstudiolifecycle |
| NI TestStand | tslcp |
| NI DIAdem | ddlcp |
| NI SignalExpress | selcp |
| NI VeriStand | nivslifecycle |
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