Keyfax was first published as a buyer’s guidebook on electronic keyboards by in 1985 by Virgin Books.

The next ten years saw six subsequent editions culminating in Keyfax Omnibus Edition (Mix Books) in 1996.

Author Julian Colbeck has written many other books on music and music technology including Rock Talk (MacDonald), What MIDI (Making Music), Rockschool 2 (BBC), How To Make A Hit Record (Anaya), and Zappa, a biography (WH Allen), plus has written countless articles for music magazines around the globe including Sound On Sound, Future Music, Sounds, Electronic Musician, Keyboard, DTM (Japan), the Frankfurt Daily and many, many others.

Keyfax’s experience in producing instructional videos predates the successful Get Motifated series on Motif by more than ten years, beginning with one of the first independent synthesizer guides Getting The Most Out Of The Korg M1 (1989).

Over the subsequent three years a major 3-part video series was produced: Getting The Most Out Of Home Recording, which remains viable, and on sale to this day, and Analogue Heaven, commemorating the opening of London’s Museum of Synthesizer Technology, complete with interviews with Bob Moog and performances by Flood, Mark Jenkins, and other synthesizer luminaries.

The success of the original Get Motifated video/DVD (which won a Videographers Award in 2001) bred a further two full length programs, Tips, Tricks, and Techniques, and Sampling & Recording Projects. In 2003 Keyfax produced The Complete Guide To the Motif ES, plus Exploring Twiddly.Bits MIDI Samples.

The 01Xperience, a 2 hour, 5-language DVD on the Yamaha 01x mLAN Mixing Studio was released in early 2004 as Keyfax moved to new offices in Santa Cruz featuring full on-site audio and video facilities.

During 2004 Keyfax has produced a number of short DVDs for Yamaha, edited a European Concert Special for Alan Parsons, and wrote, shot, and produced a major new DVD on sound reinforcement that is due for release at the end of the year.

Since then Keyfax has produced many full-length DVDs for Yamaha, and other manufacturers, created countless short web videos, and edited a European Concert Special for Alan Parsons.