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".

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).

"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.

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

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.

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

"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."

cEvin's Jupiter-6 in a rack inside Subconscious Studios, Los Angeles.

Two keyboard racks inside Subconscious Studios (cEvin's studio).

In Subconscious Studios, owned by cEvin Key, a Clavia Nord Lead 1 synthesizer is prominently featured among the keyboard racks.

In a 2011 photo taken at Subconscious Studios in Los Angeles, cEvin Key is seen using a Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer.

The Alesis Andromeda sitting on a Yamaha CS-80 polysynth, inside Subconscious Studios, Los Angeles, 2011. The Andromeda was in the meantime sold on Subcon's official website.

A rack inside Subconscious Studios, with the Future Retro Revolution clearly visible on one of the shelves.

cEvin Key owns two Syncussion SY-1 tabletop synthesizers, as seen in a post shared by him on Instagram.

Photo of cEvin Key in his studio, with a VCS 3 in the background.

"First keyboard was a Moog Multimoog, analog synth, pre MIDI. I got it about 1982 and still have it. I had a Roland TR-808 before that and Pollard Syndrums, so it wasn’t my first piece of gear."

"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."

"Just yesterday I was still studying the finer details of the Roland MC-202, which one tends to forget if you don’t stay on it. So generally it’s best to pick a certain piece of gear or two and focus on them instead of thinking of what’s new I could get to make it better."

The pictures featured in this article show a rack inside Subconscious Studios, with a modded TB-303 sitting in its center.

This is a Reddit post with a picture originally taken from cEvin's Facebook page. The picture includes two photos of Subconscious Studios, spliced together to look like a panorama photo. Featured in the photos is a Roland SH-101 synthesizer.

Inside Subconscious Studios, cEvin Key's studio, the Moog Minimoog Voyager is prominently displayed among two keyboard racks, as shown in a user-uploaded photo.

Inside Subconscious Studios, cEvin Key's personal studio, a Moog Minimoog Model D is visible among the keyboard racks, as shown in the user-uploaded photo.

In a photo from Subconscious Studios, cEvin Key's workspace, a Roland JP-8000 Synthesizer is visible among the keyboard racks.

cEvin Key uses the Yamaha Tenori-On, as seen in a photo from Subconscious Studios.

A rack inside cEvin's old studio in Vancouver, also called Subconscious Studios, before he moved to LA.