VI of the Day (9/4/2009)

[smercurio_fc]

Are you using the right frequency? Try this:

That should be middle C.

[Harold_Timmis]

nope I tried it and still no noise

[Darin.K]

Name that tune.  Not enough time to tweak it (and my pitch is terrible), but I think it is recognizable. 

Note this works just fine for me on LV8.2.1 with XP or Vista.  Be sure to disable the system beep.

[altenbach]

Montreux is a hint

[altenbach]

Now all we need is a reentrant beep.vi so we can do polyphonics.

[stevem181]

The mystery tune is pretty easy for those of us that went to HS in the 70s - nice job.

Below is a simple alarm vi that toggles between the system alert and the synchronous beep modes. I think the combination makes a reasonably good alarm sound. If you control the on/off with a queue, you can set up a very simple application wide alarm.

steve

www.ashfordsolutions.com

[NitinD]

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Harold Timmis wrote:
nope I tried it and still no noise

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Does your computer beep when you boot it up? I had a machine in which the internal speakers were disconnected, so I got no sound in that machine.

[Harold_Timmis]

I just restarted my computer and no beep..... so I don't know how it was diconnected because it is a laptop and I havn't done anything with it hardware wise or software wise really.....

[NitinD]

Well... I've not tried the VI on my laptop. I'm not sure of how laptops are built inside. Usually the desktop CPUs are connected to a small speaker internally, which gives the beep...

Come to think of it, I don't recall my laptop beeping during boot up either, which means that beep.vi shouldn't work on it too, if my hunch is correct. I'll confirm and get back to you. 

[Harold_Timmis]

Sounds good I would like to mess with the beep.vi but never have had the opportunity so I normally use the lvsound.llb