Accoring to this article Curt Smith used a PPG Wave when recording Tears For Tears classic album Songs From the Big Chair

"I think that came along about '82. That was another one I got because it had a sound all of its own. It was away from the normal analogue synths, yet away from the samplers as well. It was such a good idea to have a machine with the variability and sharpness of digital sound, but still with the warmth of filters and envelopes. There wasn't a need to learn a completely new way of working, but you got a completely new sound. Even today, there's nothing that sounds quite like the PPG. You can hear its individual quality no matter how much other stuff you MIDI in with it."

"The Transcendent was soon joined by a Moog Micromoog, a Crumar string synthesiser, a Fender Rhodes, a Roland Jupiter 4, an early PPG system (with which he performed his original solo concerts), a PPG Wave 2.2 (a gift from PPG because the original instrument was so unreliable), a Jupiter 8, a Fairlight Series II and a Fairlight Series III."

Andy Latimer is noted for using the PPG Wave 2.2 synthesizer on Camel's 1984 album "Stationary Traveller," as detailed in the album's liner notes on Discogs.

"Really, this year, the bass and the Chapman stick have been left firmly on their stands. I've been working on my singing and performing and doing a lot of writing. We've also finished our own studio — a small 24-track in north west London with an Otari machine and a Soundcraft series 2000/400 desk.

"And we've got a PPG which has been an integral part of the writing — a PRK (the performance keyboard), 2.2 (the free standing synth) and a Term (the computer terminal). It's versatility is amazing, but really one of the developments I'd like to see for '85 is more reliable software.

"The PPG can be a little temperamental. We took it on the road for a tour which took us all over the place, and we didn't have any problems, though we did have an exceptionally brilliant keyboard roadie, Chris Miring, who usually works for Joan Armatrading. But back in the studio, the PPG started to have a few tantrums.'

According to Circus Magazine, Jonathan Cain used the PPG Wave 2.2 synthesizer during his time with Journey in the early 1980s.

David Bryan's PPG Wave 2.2 is shown on the "Backstage with Bon Jovi" website in their Instrument Collection.

This has been edited from the Schools programme "Science Topics" broadcast in 1983. This episode was title "Electronics In Action" and contains footage of the band performing on the Oxford Road Show in 1982, tinkering with Lament in the studio and Midge demo-ing antique synth!

We know that for the first album, the band used a PPG Wave 2.2 on the recording, and in this video clip, under a Yamaha DX7, there is a PPG Wave.

"We also use quite a lot of old stuff, because I've still got things like a PPG 2.2, and we've used a Prophet 5, Juno 106 and Jupiter 8 because there's a lot of arpeggiated stuff. A big problem with a lot of modern sequencers is that you have to write arpeggiation in yourself- there isn't actually a machine which arpeggiates, which is a shame because it's nice when it's more random. We use S1000s, S900s, and an FZ1. I tend to use the FZ1 as my main sampler just because that happened to be the one that I bought."

"Q. I noticed that during your solo albums you moved through the gamut of classic 80s keyboards including the PPG Wave, Yamaha GS-1 and Roland D-50. What are your fave synths from the 80s?

I loved the GS-1. It was big and high quality but I don’t think I used it a lot on my solo albums. I think it was originally made for the small church market in America so that they could get the sounds they needed without buying a huge church organ. I had a deal with Yamaha who stuck with us over the years and when the GS-1 came out I ended up going to Hamburg and sitting with a Yamaha programmer who created some great string sounds for me. I loved playing that instrument and I could play the vibrato with my feet. I’d stand up and rock back back to keep the sustain going and do the vibrato with my foot.

I used the PPG a lot. I got into the Rack Mounted DX-7, the TX-816. I’d got into MIDI in the early days in my own studio for the first couple of solo albums, Transportation and Stand Up and Walk and linking all these things up to get new sounds. I had a Prophet T8, the Prophet Sampler, the Roland D-50. it was like Keyboard City. The Prophet VS was used a lot. I really liked the joystick and the way you could morph between sounds."

On his website Adam Holzman lists the gear he uses, including this one.