In this tweet, Skrillex tells us which plugins he uses. "most of my go to VI's are pretty standard.. Massive, FM8, Sylenth1,Vanguard,Pro53, Gladiator. Nothing too fancy"

Rob Swire posted in his Twitter a photo with the quote "Blast from the past". Also, the pictures suggests that he was running it in Cubase.

"...and it gives more room and space, because I have the Pro 53 here, from Native Instruments, and there's lots of delay! You can hear it. And it give it just some space, some atmosphere..." (6:12)

In this youtube video, at 1:07, 12th Planet mentioned that he used, "FM7... and uh Absynth 1, Absynth 2, and Pro 53. Those are kinda like my go-to synths"

Robin Schulz has a Pro 53 in this image from Instagram.

"Blast from the past"-Rob

“I use a lot of Native Instruments stuff, like the Pro-53, the B4 organ. I also love the GForce M-Tron.”

Harry Gregson-Williams's LA studio complex, Wavecrest Music, commenced operations in Venice Beach in August 2003, and comprises three floors of editing suites, mix rooms and a live room, as well as Harry's own studio on the top level. This houses the following gear:

Sequencing and digital audio

*Steinberg Cubase SX and Ableton Live running on dual 3.6GHz Xeon server with 4GB RAM, two RME HD*SP 9652 soundcards, 75GB mirrored SATA system drives and 400GB mirrored SATA audio/sample storage drives. MIDI is streamed over LAN to Gigastudio PCs, and an Emagic Unitor 8 and AMT8 are used for hardware synths. *Pro Tools HD Accel system running on dual 2GHz Apple G5, with one 192 Analog and seven 192 Digital interfaces.

Samplers

*14x Emu E4X. *24x Roland S760. *7x 3.0GHz Pentium 4 PCs with 80GB SATA system drives, RME HDSP 9652 soundcards and 250GB SATA sound drives with custom and commercial sound libraries, running Tascam Gigastudio 3.

Software synths and plug-ins

*Arturia ARP 2600, Minimoog V and CS80. *Antares Filter and Auto-Tune. *Applied Acoustics Lounge Lizard. *Gmedia Imposcar and Oddity. *GRM Tools. *Korg Legacy Collection. *Native Instruments Absynth 3, Battery 2, FM7, Kontakt 2, Pro 53, Reaktor 4. *Ohm Force Ohm Boyz. *Spectrasonics Stylus RMX, Atmosphere and Trilogy. *Steinberg D'Cota, X-Phraze, Virtual Guitarist, VG Electric Edition, Groove Agent and Halion.

Hardware synths

*Access Virus, Indigo 2 and Redback. *Clavia Nord Rack, Nord 3 KB and Nord Modular. *Korg Trinity Pro X, Wavestation A/D and M1R. *Novation Supernova II Pro. *Roland JP8080, JD990, JV1080 and MKS80. *Studio Electronics SE1, ATC1 and Omega 8. *Waldorf Q, Microwave II, Microwave XT and Pulse.

Recording, mixing & outboard

*Avalon 727 preamp. *Eventide DSP4000 effects. *Lexicon PCM80 and 90 reverbs. *Quested HQ108 speakers in 5.1 setup. *5x Yamaha 02R digital mixers.

"Yes I have a Pro-53. I haven't used it as much as I'd like to, but I kind of like to do "actual reality" like there's a piano there and I "actually" play it. But yes, I have messed around with them a little bit. I did the new Boz Scaggs album with them, and I've done some Toto stuff with it. Once I get home I'm going to look into the modeling because they're coming out with more complete synthesizers. I really would like to explore them more."

Gramatik's answer to "Production tools you can't live without?":

"...Like, I like to use Ozone as the entire package, Ozone 5 to master and mix... like Native Insturments, Massive and FM8 and Pro 53 a lot of synths... and of course like a lot of, like, Moog simulations and some hardware from Moog. Moogs are, like, definitely like, my favorite synths."

English Electric’ uses the following instrumentation… Paul Humphreys: Synth-Werk, ARP 2600, M Tron Pro, Trillion, Omnisphere, Oberheim SEM V, Morphoder, Jupiter 8V2, Minimoog V, Prophet Pro 53, Massive, Vacuum, Boom Andy McCluskey: Vacuum, Indigo Virus, M Tron Pro, Jupiter 8, Vox Machina

Christopher Franke lists the Native Instruments Pro-53 on his official equipment page, indicating its use in his music production setup.