So Sandroid had been dropping hints about this for a while in the Tracker Overflow discord.
And I had been looking for a while for a solution to the KB1’s limited range.
Well, now thanks to his and Polyend team’s hard work on the new libraries I was able to build a little tool, to map out beat sliced instruments tailored to the KB1. This and the Flash tool has been rolled into KB1-Studio. The flash tool remains the same, and an additional tab now gives you an Instrument builder. Primary workflow is to batch import a folder full of samples (or pick and add singles as well), and the app will parse through the files and try its best to map them to the keys. Then, once in the interface, you can slip them along the keyboard any way you like, normalize the levels, play or shuttle thru each sample, trim all at once, see a preview of the file size, export the .pti file, and save as a project locally. Now I have some really nice Rhodes versions from Zach Hannah’s Wonder Rhodes on https://www.pianobook.co.uk .
Import looks like this.
Main window looks like this.
