VI-grade NVH Simulator Integration
Sound Designer and VI-grade NVHSim
The Sound Designer software suite has been streamlined to work with the VI-grade NVH simulator on the same computer, without any external hardware boxes, cables, nor extra configurations to worry about.
The systems will run side by side on the same host, seamlessly connected using internal software interfaces instead of cumbersome external hardware devices.
Advantages
– Instant reliable recall for development and internal demos which comes in especially handy when the elaborate simulator resources are shared between projects and across departments
– Multiple vehicle and sound setups can easily be compared one after the other, for example whether new sound tunings will work on all of the many vehicle variants without major modifications
– The initial installation of simulator and active sound system is less complex as the number of systems and peripherals to acquire, set up, configure, maintain, and update is considerably smaller
– Custom setups can be cloned from one computer to another by creating a software image of the installation
Connecting the Dots
In Sound Designer’s config tab simply
– select the VI-grade NVHSim as a network CAN source from the input devices menu
– choose the supplied VI-grade audio driver to forward the audio generated by SD to
Sound Designer will
– respond directly to the original vehicle data generated by NVHSim
– route its up to 24 audio output channels back to NVHSim to be mixed with e.g. the road and wind noise signals generated there
Connecting the two systems is as easy as these two steps.
Getting Real
To truly comprehend NVH data, it needs to be experienced as sound and vibration. Data from many sources has to be brought together, in different formats, for multiple components, then assembled to form a single digital virtual prototype that can be listened to, felt and driven interactively.
This is the mission that VI-grade NVHSim and Sound Designer set out to accomplish when combining forces: Not worry about the technical details, but fully focus on bringing Active Sound to its full potential.
Add the punch of real sound to electric vehicles, augment the sound of efficient, but not so characteristic combustion engines, and bridge both worlds in hybrid vehicles.
