cEvin Key

The Roland TR-8 can be seen below the DSI Prophet 12 in this Instagram photo posted by cEvin Key.

cEvin Key utilized the Moog Sub 37 Paraphonic Analog Synthesizer during a recent live show, as detailed in the Side-Line Music Magazine tech-talk with DJ Wildhoney.

At 6:10 in the video cEvin tells the interviewer that the second synth he ever bought was a Sequential Circuits Pro-One. He also tells him how much it was used by Skinny Puppy: "Skinny Puppy...Probably every song we ever made is using a Pro-One".

This article features pictures of a rack inside Subconscious Studios. On the top shelf of the rack, you can see a stack of drum synths and effects processors, including a Korg SDD-2000 digital delay.

cEvin Key playing live with Skinny Puppy on the VIVIsectVI tour, 1988.

This picture shows cEvin Key performing live with Skinny Puppy on the VIVIsectVI tour in 1988. On top of the top keyboard on the right side of the picture you can see a Roland TR-606 drum machine.

"I mainly use Logic synced to the room and all clocks, I also like Renoise sometimes. I use an Apple Macintosh, though most of our earliest Skinny Puppy stuff etc., up until the new albums, we used an Atari 1040 ST with Steinberg Pro 24 sequencer, very primitive!"

The photo shows a rack inside cEvin Key's former Subconscious Studios, featuring the E-mu SP-1200, prior to his relocation to Los Angeles.

In a 1997 photo from cEvin Key's former Subconscious Studios in Vancouver, a Yamaha SY77 synthesizer is visible in a studio rack. It is likely that this SY77 belonged to Dwayne Goettel.

cEvin Key uses a Dave Smith Instruments Pro 2, as shown in a post on his Instagram account (@subcon).

cEvin Key is announced as Renoise official artist http://renoise.com/artists/cevin-key

Interview by GraySun Caligari, published in Circuit Breaker Club. cEvin Key: "So Re-Noise is an amazing program if you’ve ever sequenced using that. It’s more of a Tracker style program. It’s more complicated. It was used for songs like “Ganbatte“. How I found out about it was through Aaron from Venetian Snares. I was asking him how he did all that crazy articulated stuff. There is quite a learning procedure but then doorways open up and it’s really fun. About half of the record was written using Re-Noise." *'Renoise' is spelled wrong. https://circuitbreakerclub.org/links-and-goodies/interview-with-cevin-key-of-skinny-puppy/

Interview by DJ Wildhoney, published in Side-Line Magazine. cEvin Key: "I mainly use Logic synced to the room and all clocks, I also like Renoise sometimes." http://www.side-line.com/skinny-puppy-all-my-gear-crashing-on-top-of-me-was-not-good-tech-talk-with-dj-wildhoney/

"cK: I have used a lot of different things throughout time, again too much too list. Lately I’ve been using a Roland V-Synth to use as a controller for mixing virtual synth with its architecture. I also have a Moog, Teenage Engineering OP-1 and various analog effects onstage including a hand triggered syncussion Pearl Syncussion SY-1."

Cevin's main live synth.

cEvin Key Plays his keyboards live with Skiny Puppy on the VIVIsectVI tour (1988). On the right you can see two Korg SDD-1000 digital delay processors.

"I mainly use Logic synced to the room and all clocks, I also like Renoise sometimes. I use an Apple Macintosh, though most of our earliest Skinny Puppy stuff etc., up until the new albums, we used an Atari 1040 ST with Steinberg Pro 24 sequencer, very primitive!"

The pictures featured in this article show a rack inside Subconscious Studios. The SC-40 sits on the Simmons SDS V on the top of the rack.

In Subconscious Studios, cEvin Key utilizes the Elektron Machinedrum SPS-1UW MKII, as shown in a user-uploaded photo.

In a photo from Subconscious Studios, a Sequential Circuits Studio 440 can be seen, indicating its use by cEvin Key.

The VIVIsectVI era practice-setup as drawn by Dwayne Goettel.

In a photo from Sequencer, cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy is seen using the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer during the Vivisect tour.

Cevin Uses an SP-404 as part of his live Rig.

cEvin Key plays his keyboards live with Skinny Puppy during the VIVIsectVI tour (1988). The top keyboard appears to be an Ensoniq Mirage DSK-8 Sampler.

cEvin Key live with Skinny Puppy during the VIVIsectVI tour (1988). The bottom one of the two keyboards on the right side of the picture is an Ensoniq ESQ-1 synthesizer.

The photo shows cEvin Key live on tour with Skinny Puppy (1988). There appears to be a Akai S900 mounted in the rack behind cEvin.

Pictures of cEvin's Last Rights tour drumosaurus from 1992. Also featured in his setup was an E-mu emax II.

cEvin Key with Skinny Puppy on the VIVIsectVI tour. On top of the Ensoniq ESQ-1 (lower keyboard) he's using a Tokai Metal Drive TMD-1 distortion pedal.

"I mainly use Logic synced to the room and all clocks, I also like Renoise sometimes. I use an Apple Macintosh, though most of our earliest Skinny Puppy stuff etc., up until the new albums, we used an Atari 1040 ST with Steinberg Pro 24 sequencer, very primitive!"

"Basically everything we’ve used we practically still have here. So it’s a list too long to go into. There is a wall alone that is the orginal setup of Skinny Puppy, based around a pair of Roland TR-808’s, Roland TR-909 with trigs going to many differnat devices including Sequential Circuits Pro One, Roland System 100m, ElectroComp Eml 101, Korg SQ-10, Korg MS-20, Korg MS-10, ARP 2500 and ARP 2600."

"Basically everything we’ve used we practically still have here. So it’s a list too long to go into. There is a wall alone that is the orginal setup of Skinny Puppy, based around a pair of Roland TR-808’s, Roland TR-909 with trigs going to many differnat devices including Sequential Circuits Pro One, Roland System 100m, ElectroComp Eml 101, Korg SQ-10, Korg MS-20, Korg MS-10, ARP 2500 and ARP 2600."

"Basically everything we’ve used we practically still have here. So it’s a list too long to go into. There is a wall alone that is the orginal setup of Skinny Puppy, based around a pair of Roland TR-808’s, Roland TR-909 with trigs going to many differnat devices including Sequential Circuits Pro One, Roland System 100m, ElectroComp Eml 101, Korg SQ-10, Korg MS-20, Korg MS-10, ARP 2500 and ARP 2600."