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Your cart is empty.The best-selling Kong tm series, which lets you use a tuner and metronome simultaneously, has been revamped. The TM-60 is the newest model and features a larger display that can show the tuner and metronome simultaneously. The battery life has also been dramatically improved. With the all-new TM-60, you’ll be able to enjoy pitch training and rhythm training without having to switch functions or be concerned with battery life. The newly designed stand and battery compartment, as well as the convenient memory backup function, make the TM-60 kora's best tuner/metronome yet.
SKILLS2KILLS_QC
Reviewed in Canada on January 15, 2025
Small portable You can tune alot of instrument using it it's priced cheep but great quality for a small tuner it's pretty straight foward to use and really acurate function as is should it even has a metronome and headphone jack it has good quality coming out it too
Gou
Reviewed in Japan on September 30, 2024
使いやすくて最高でした!
Tribble
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2024
This works so well it even has a metronome function!! It also has a mic so you can tune acoustics too
Bernabé SEF
Reviewed in Spain on March 31, 2023
Lo compré para estudiar trompeta y estoy encantado. Mejor éste aparato que un móvil, porque te evita distracciones e interrupciones con llamadas, mensajes, etc. Máxima concentración con los ejercicios/partituras y tu metrónomo: rendimiento máximo en mis estudios.Tiene muchas opciones y variables tanto como afinador como metrónomo.Lo utilizo con los dos modos a la vez y sobre todo como metrónomo, que me gusta más que utilizar una aplicación en el móvil.La única pega es que tiene una marca vertical que oscila de derecha e izquierda en el metrónomo y otra parecida para el afinador. Cuando usas los dos modos a la vez, se pueden solapar en la pantalla y te puede distraer un poco o no ver bien si te alejas un poco y estás buscando la nota perfectamente afinada.Por lo demás, me parece una muy buena compra y muy buen artículo.
FilmComposer
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2023
As a professional musician, I've had many tuners and some good metronomes over the decades. My kid wants to play cello, so I bought a low budget branded tuner similar to this for him. It was a bit awkward - had to hold the buttons to change function or power, it did NOT do a metronome and tuner simultaneously (this is huge for string players learning!), and the screen, while it looked nice, had to be looked at directly to read it properly. I returned it and paid 2x for this, knowing 100% Korg is a better brand.This tuner rocks! Metronome and tuner at the same time is a huge feature. Single press buttons, nice volume, screen isn't flashy but it's clear and nice. It's nice the backlight option has a dim and bright option.My only gripe is the LEDs for showing if you're in tune are only one red one on each side of the green in-tune one for sharp or flat. The digital screen with needle is much finer details, but I noticed him looking at the LEDs first.Also the plastic shell is a bit slippery to grasp.Overall, buy this one!
Chris Robinson
Reviewed in Australia on October 10, 2023
This is a great combination device for the money.Tuner: You can set middle A anywhere you want from 410 to 480 Hz in single steps and it keeps the setting when powered off. I make and play folk instruments so the default 440 is fine for me, but if you play in an orchestra you'll appreciate being able to set middle A to 442 or almost anything else. Tuning is of course standard equal temperament. It responds well to both stringed and wind instruments and I had no trouble getting it to respond correctly to any acoustic instrument, including a cow bell. Resolution is 1 cent which is great at this price range. I make Irish whistles so it's more than I need (a whistle is mostly played by ear at this resolution). I was previously making my instruments with a tuner app but the TM-60 has helped explain some # anomalies I've been having with the bell note. I think the reason is that the tuner handles harmonics much better than phone apps. If you play a major chord on a guitar it will even identify the chord correctly, so really amazing. The one thing I don't like about the tuner is that it does not indicate the octave on the screen, but on the other hand if I can't get the octave right I'm doing something very wrong. In tone generator mode it does indicate the octave (A4, C5 etc) so it does have the display capability for that feature. The tone generator is a square wave, which I don't like much for my application but it keeps the price down, and I don't really need that feature very much. It also has sound back capabilities for electric instruments but I don't need and haven't used that feature. Sound back tone generates the note put into the jack, and does work. It kind of turns the device into an automatic tone generator, but no it does not indicate the octave when you use it that way either (I tried). The tuner always turns on with the tone generator and sound back features turned off.Metronome: When I read other reviews I was concerned that the metronome would not be loud enough. It's fine, I can hear it over a session whistle. It's not going to compete with a 50W guitar amplifier, but if that is your use case you will need to mix the output from the headphone jack into your sound. I think the reason for the strange volume control (from absolutely nothing to full on a log scale) is to match roughly with a wide range of input impedances (mic or line input for example). I will probably try this eventually. The default timing is in steps corresponding to classical music - eg andante is 80 to 108 bpm in steps of 4 bpm. If you want you can change it to single steps if you just have to set 90 bpm or something and the full range is 30 to 252 bpm. There's also a "tap tempo" button which works well, but it's more of a push button than a tap pad as the name would suggest. The tone is electronic (of course) but is more of a "bop" sound rather than the annoying "beep" or "cheep" (I hate those so much) you get with most phone apps. High tone is used for beat 1, low for all other beats. Bar timing is 1 to 9 beats, and rhythm timing is march, triplets, swing(blues), quicktime and swing quicktime. For single timing you can select 1 for high tones or 0 for low tones. The metronome remembers all settings on power off including the setting to adjust for single beats. The metronome has two visual indicators - a sweep needle on the screen with beats on each extreme swing (a mechanical metronome has beat on the centre) and a flashing LED under the tap tempo button which flashes on every beat.Other features: The stated battery life (2 AAA) is 130 hours with carbon zinc batteries, supplied. Using the backlight on low gives you about 55 hours so If you use the backlight a lot you might want to use alkaline batteries. It has an auto off feature when not in use for 20 minutes, which seems reasonable. If you are using it then it won't turn off. The backlight has three settings: off low and high (36 hour carbon battery life on high) but I've found the low setting to be fine in most low light situations. You don't really need the back light in good room lighting. It remembers the backlight setting on power off.The screen has an excellent viewing angle up/down, but a very narrow viewing angle left/right, so wherever you put it should be pointing straight at you if possible. I can see it fine whether it is on the floor or on a music stand. The screen shows all relevant information and settings with the exception of the octave in tuner mode as already stated.Interestingly you can use the tuner and metronome individually or both at the same time. When used together the needle for the metronome splits to have the tuner on the top and the metronome on the bottom. The metronome beat does not interfere with the tuner.Within the limitation of price this is an excellent combo device with great features. Korg did a great job with this and I can recommend it for your gig bag or practice room. If you need a better tuner you would have to pay for a lab grade instrument, and if you want a better metronome you should probably get a drum machine.
Gabriella T
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2020
I’ve named her Sabrina. She’s much smaller and compact than I anticipated. I tested all of her bells and whistles and she works just fine. What inspired me to actually come on here and type up a review for you people, were the small details that I noticed and appreciated. For starters, there’s a little kickstand in the back, which is a delight to someone whose previous tuner/metronome was a smartphone app which required a pitiful kickstand made of chopsticks. Second, the way it was packaged tells me: if they went through the effort of placing protective film over the LCD screen, their engineers probably aren’t the type to cut corners and it’s a product worth protecting. Plus it was designed/engineered in Japan so it already goes without saying that it’s a high-quality piece of technology. I have a lot of love in my heart for Asians in general, but I’m pulling the favorite card for the Japanese. This metronome also came with a full detailed instructional pamphlet, which I’m sure was very informative. Idk I tossed it to the side. I’m more of a wing-it gal myself but it is comforting knowing I’ll have something to read if ‘Rona lasts until 2021. Sabrina also arrived with batteries in tow! This was probably my favorite part since it saved me the time I would’ve spent rummaging through 37 drawers in my kitchen. Time that I’m sure was wasted on this review, instead. Oh well. Circle of life, folks. Lastly, Sabrina has a Tempo Range chart engraved on her back. I can’t pronounce half of it but we’ll get there.Now brace for impact because here comes the closing statement nobody asked for..This company didn’t have to add any of these features in order to deliver the product that you asked for: a tuner metronome. Which leads me to believe that they did so because they take pride in their work. Yes, one could argue that they did so as a marketing advantage to justify a steeper price? .....ehh. This isn’t a $1200 iPhone. Paying $24 for a reliable product is a bargain in my book. Especially given that the cheaper option was literally a bell and spoon. In summary, choose this product. Don’t let Sabrina be the one that got away.
Carl C. Ferre-lang
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2019
I've used a lot of different metronomes: Taktells, seiko style, qwiktime, numorous card style metronomes, my teacher's dr beat which I loved (and was a major reason I chose to practice in his studio) and my mother's seth thomas electric metronome when I would come home. Of all of these, my favorite besides the dr beat was the seiko style ones. They were durable with one movable knob only, no display- nothing fancy to break down (the seiko one i used for teaching, I must have dropped a hundred times) - and they were loud! I'd leave one in a practice room or somewhere and it was no big loss. Those card style digital ones in particular were like 10 bucks anywhere 15 years ago! I've always been nervous to get an integrated metronome such as the one above because I figured the more features, the more possibilities for something to stop working. This has been sort of proven to me in my experiences with some of these integrated tuner/metronome combos. The only tuner I've ever owned, on the other hand, was my beloved korg CA-30. I had it for 15 years. Practiced intonation using the tone generator for an hour each day for something like 5-6 of those years. It never failed. In fact, I lost it last year during a move. I bought a few decent looking tone generators to try and replace it (I only use the tuner when setting up instruments, not when practicing), and finally picked this one up. It doesn't have any fancy roll wheels to change tempo (like that dr beat). In fact, on the surface, the design looks pretty clunky: It's a little large. Separate sides for both functions with dedicated buttons, no color display or anything, but i've gotten used to it and i really appreciate its design now. The metronome tap feature I use all the time and is quite accurate. I also like that when i turn it off and on, it returns to the tempo at which I had previously left it. That's a nice touch. There are beat subdivisions and you can set it to a few different meters. I don't really use any of those features much, but some will appreciate them in so portable a unit. It's pretty loud, though I wish it were a little louder and my main gripe on this side is that i can't track the tempo as subtly as i would like.. Sometimes, I'll click it up a hair and the tempo divisions seem to go between 3 and 4 bpm at around 50 bpm to 8 (!) at around 200 bpm. This is a minor inconvenience though. Taktells, for example have this lack of precision borne into the design. The tone generator is great, just like the one in the CA-30. In fact I don't remember that unit having a 3 octave range, which this does. Good strong square wave tone, great for practicing intonation drills. I can't comment on the tuner as I haven't used it yet but i'm sure it's just as fine as the one in my ca-30. It has an adjustable backlight so you can use it in poorly lit conditions, but the controls are so intuitive, you really shouldn't even need it other for just tuning. I haven't needed to change the provided batteries yet, in several weeks of use from an hour or two a day or more so i'd say it doesn't kill batteries quickly. Now, it's strange that this was the last of the metro/tuners that i bought given how well my previous Korg products seem to hold up but I'll just add that of the two other metro/tuners I've bought over the last year, this is the only one that still works. Granted, I've only used it heavily for a few weeks, but the first one i bought (using this forum- you might find my review online, i don't want to mention it here) died several months in. The second one, which i dropped some money on for a few more features failed as well and i was able to return it for store credit. There's, in short, a rash of cheaply made items about that have feature well above their ability to maintain those features. caveat emptor. If it looks too good to be true for the price, it probably is. Get the reliable one instead.Edit: Two years in and everything still works as it should. I think i did get around to changing the batteries but only once so far.. This is about the performance I expected. Good ol' KORG!Edit 2: Four years in and all is well. Looks brand new. Replaced the batteries twice, and I'm using rechargable eneloops (which i use all over the house) with no noticeable loss of performance.
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