I posted some time ago inquiring about tuners on the market. I used the valuable information I received from memmbers here, to decide buying a Korg. I ordered its model MT-40 from the USA and received it a couple of days ago. I am surprised of the many features it has and how useful I think they are (at least for me).

I post here a short report and I hope it might be useful to others looking for a new tuner

- This little guy has two personalities, it can be a metronome and a tuner, and both can be used simultaneously!
- The tuner is fast and it displays the note played on a LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen, plus a LCD "needle" and 3 pilot lights flat-good-sharp.
- the metronome has many beats, up to 7, plus diplets, triplets and 5-plets. It can play the first and third note of a triplet and silence the second (I do not know what is this feature for)
- The beat is very audible, much more than the standar "beep" of other electro devices I have heard; i.e it very well simulates the clac-cloc of a old-timer spring metronome.
- It has a headphone output, so that it can be heard even when music is played is being very loud.
- apart from the audible signal, the LCD needle moves from side to side, exactly as would do a mechanical metro.
- The metronome can be used to capture the tempo of a piece that is being played, so that there is no need to trial and tests. One press a button according to the strong beat of a bar and it knows what tempo in bps it has.
- In addition to the tuner and the metronome, it has a tone generator (12 notes), very useful for tuning an instrument (and also for singing). The tone generated is very reach in harmonics so that it does not belong clearly to any particular octave. Wise idea!.
- it ahas an external microphone input (it is recommended for guitar players)
- finally (but only in this list), the price: I paid well under 30 US$ for all this features.


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One press a button according to the strong beat of a bar..
I should have said that "One press a button according to the strong note of a few consecutive bars.."

these are good little machines and they fit nicely in a gig bag or briefcase