A Music Unit is what a Wave Window contains and which is store in a WaveThunder Music File with extension ".wtm".

You can create one or more Music Windows which containes Staves and Music Symbols.

Music are saved in files.

This is an example of a Music Window, it containes 3 Staves.

With Music Windows you can:

1. Create a new Music Window: Choose from the menu: File | New | Music...
2. Open a Music Unit from a File: Choose from the menu: File | Open | Music... and Choose one or more files.
3. Save the Music Unit into a File: Choose from the menu: File | Save to save into the same file, or choose File | Save As... and give in a new or existing file.
4. Revert the Music Unit to Music Unit of a file: Choose from the menu: File | Revert.
5. Play the Music Unit: : Choose from the menu: File | Play or play at maximal volume by choosing File | Play Maximal
6. Duplicate: Choose from the menu: File | Duplicate
7. Change the Wave Properties of Wave Generated by the Music Unit: Choose from the menu: File | Properties... and change the Wave Properties.

There are five kinds of symbols you can maintain within the Music Window:

1. Notes including flags, dots and Accidentals
2. Rests
3. Clefs
4. Accidentals
5. Bar Symbols

While navigation or editing, the window will scroll when necessary.

You can navigate through Symbols:

1. one position left or right.
2. one position up or down (only with Notes).
3. one staff up or down (only with Notes).
4. first or last Symbol of the Staff.

You cannot select a Accidental directly, it is always a part of a Note or a Clef.
With Notes you can...

• Add Notes to Staves.
• Delete Notes from Staves.
• Change the Note Group of a Note.
• Change the Length of Notes, including changing the count of dots up to three.
• Change the articulation (staccatissimo, staccato, portato and legato) of Notes.
• Change one or more Notes into a Tuplet (Twins, Triplets, Quadruplets and Quintuplets).
• Change one or more Notes into a Rest.
• Move Notes horizontally and vertically.

With Rests you can...

• Add Rests to Staves.
• Delete Rests from Staves.
• Change the Length of Rests, including changing the count of dots up to three.
• Change a Rest into a Note.
• Move Rests horizontally.

With Clefs you can...

• Add Clefs to Staves.
• Delete Clefs (except the first clef of a Music Part) from Staves.
• Move Clefs (except the first clef of a Music Part) horizontally.
• Changed Clefs, with no effect on music, the Notes after the Clef will move vertically.
• Correct Clefs, with effect on music, the Notes after the Clef will not move vertically.

With Accidentals you can...

• Add a Accidental to a Note.
• Change a Accidental of a Note.
• Delete a Accidental from a Note.
• Add a Accidental to a Clef.
• Change a Accidental of a Clef.
• Delete a Accidental from a Clef.

With Bar Symbols(the two values) you can...

• Change the Count (upper value).
• Change the Length (lower value).
• Create, change or remove the anacrusis.

You can also add, change and delete Music Symbols using the keyboard.

Last updated: 3-1-2026