Keyfax Announces Reggae Grooves Library

Twiddly.Bits producers Keyfax Software announced the launch of Reggae Grooves, a massive 650+ piece collection of authentic reggae grooves in .MID format, containing everything from basic beats and skanks, to rock guitar lead lines, organ bubbles, ska horns, and beyond.

In keeping with their tradition of using real players to produce their MIDI Sample libraries, Keyfax has called upon a number of specialist reggae players including Tim Siefert (The Yardies), Vince Black (Black Uhuru), and Dale Ockerman (Doobie Bros, Zigaboo Modeliste), who also co-ordinated the recordings for the project.

At its heart Reggae Grooves offers some 225 authentic reggae drum loops from the classic 1 drop and steppers beats, to lovers rock, dancehall, and ska, complete with (timbale/kit) fills and intros.

The grooves are carefully presented in style and BPM categories so you can easily match dancehall beats with dancehall basslines.... Or not! With more than 100 guitar parts (skanks, lead lines, and pick parts), organ bubbles by the score, snakey Clavinet licks, and some sensational ska horns, Reggae Grooves lets you produce as 'classic' or 'revolutionary' reggae material as you want.

Reggae Grooves ($39.95) can be purchased via direct download (complete with a 20 page manual containing hints and tips on all the grooves), exclusively from Keyfax software at www.keyfax.com. A CD version will be available though, as Keyfax CEO Julian Colbeck says:

"This is real music, played by real people with real feel. But physically, it's data, for people to listen to, edit, view as notation, add to their own music... on their computers.

"Bits of paper and plastic, shrink-wrap machines, and gas-guzzling UPS vans are simply not essential parts of the transfer from our computers to yours. Download is fast, and convenient, and it's clean and green."