I just dusted off my Tonecore kit after leaving it in the closet for 5 years. Installed all tools on an old XP partition and actually got them running today after several previous attempts failing up against JREs, 64 bit, etc. Good to know about the Win 7 compatibility and also ability to use the JRE 1.5 even if a later one is installed on the system.
As far as finding code examples, that's a toughie. I just don't see any.
I've been doing a lot of DSP effectscoding in the past few years on the Spin FV-1 and wrote a GUI DSP CAD tool so you can just hook together blocks sort of like in Pure Data and set the parameters, never writing a line of code. I'd like to see if something similar is possible on this thing. The FV-1 is great but I sense the Tonecore can do 4 or 5 times as much.