cEvin Key

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In a photo from cEvin Key’s Vancouver studio in 1997, an Eventide DSP4000 UltraHarmonizer is visible in one of the equipment racks, showcasing its use in his setup.

In a user-uploaded photo from cEvin Key's former Subconscious Studios, the Roland MSQ-700 sequencer is visible in a rack setup.

A rack inside Subconscious Studios, LA, 2011.

In a 1997 photo from cEvin Key's former Vancouver studio, two Ashly SC-50 Compressors can be seen mounted in the equipment racks.

This picture shows a Mackie 32-8 mixing console with an attached 24-E expander inside cEvin's studio in Los Angeles, 2011.

"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."

The pictures featured in this article show a rack inside Subconscious Studios, with a SDS-V sitting on the top shelf.

The pictures featured in this article show a rack inside Subconscious Studios. On one of the pictures you can see a CR-78 sitting on top of a System-100m modular synthesizer.

This article features pictures of a rack inside Subconscious Studios. On the top shelf, you can see a stack of drum synths and effects processors, including an Alesis QuadraVerb.

This article features pictures of a rack inside of Subconscious Studios. On the top shelf of the rack, you can see a stack of drum synths and effects processors, including a Korg SDD-3000 digital delay.

In a photo from Subconscious Studios, cEvin Key's Roland MC-505 Groovebox is visible, indicating its use in his setup.

This photo from 1997 shows two equipment racks in cEvin Key's Vancouver studio, featuring the Eventide H3500 Ultra-Harmonizer.

In a 1997 photo from cEvin Key's Vancouver studio, an AMS DMX 15-80S Digital Delay is visible among his equipment racks, illustrating his use of this effects processor.

Two equipment racks in cEvin's old studio, Vancouver, 1997.

In a 2011 photo taken inside Subconscious Studios in LA, cEvin Key's rack setup includes the Roland SBX-10 Sync Box/Converter.