"I didn't get any money from my first record deal, but I told them if they wanted me to make an album I needed a sampler, so they bought me an Ensoniq EPS 16+, which is a mono sampler with 2MB of memory. My first three full length albums were made on those three pieces of gear, and a Roland D20."

Taken from an article authored by Richard Karsmakers in October of 1995.

Karl: What musical hardware do you use?

Jens: Oberheim Matrix12, matrix1000's, Matrix 6R, DPX-1. Korg PolySix (I have around 10 of those), Yamaha DX7+TX816 rack, Roland D20, DS-330, Hammond + Leslie (I have two actually), Korg CX3 as a "touring hammond", and a bunch of others. I also rent stuff a lot.

I'm not too crazy about the "new breed" of keyboards like the K2000 etc; they sound a bit thin to me. But whatever.

Eric Persing has had a unique and influential relationship with Roland Corp for two decades. He started as a product demonstrator in 1984, showing some of Roland's first MIDI instruments. He quickly became involved in the R&D side with Roland Japan, earning the title "Chief Sound Designer", and began contributing his design ideas, real-world studio experience and sound design expertise. Persing's skills have left their mark on countless classic Roland instruments.

He is the originator of many legendary Roland sounds that have become part of the vocabulary and lexicon of musical sound. These include the Factory D-50 sounds such as Fantasia, Soundtrack and Digital Native Dance, a majority of the JV/XP/XV series Classics, all the Factory JD-800 sounds, the original Juno "Hoover" sound and thousands of others.

Here is a partial list of the Roland instruments that Eric has contributed his sound design, sampling and design consulting skills:

Juno-106 Alpha Juno 1&2 JX-3P JX-8P JX-10 Jupiter 6 Super Jupiter D-50 D-550 D-110 D-10 D-20 D-70 MT-32 U-110 U-20 U-220 Sound Canvas JD-800 JD-990 JV-80 JV-90 JV-1000 JV-1080 JV-2080 XP-10 XP-50 XP-60 XP-80 XV-3080 XV-5050 XV-5080 Fantom JP-8000 JP-8080 S-10 S-220 S-50 S-550 S-770 S-760 S-750 MC-303 MC-500 MC-505 VP-9000 MSQ-700 MSQ-100 MKS-20 MKS-30 MKS-50 MKS-70 MKS-80 R-8 R-5 DR-660 DR-770 R-70 V-Drums V-Drums expansion board SRV-2000 DEP-5 RSP-550 R-880 SRV-330 SE-50 SE-70 VS-880 VS-1680 SR-JV series expansion boards SRX series expansion boards Sound Canvas Project series CD-ROM libraries Archives series CD-ROM libraries Composers series CD-ROM libraries

"I played piano in local pubs, creating all my own backing tracks on the Roland D20. That was very good practice and that was my first introduction to music technology."

Although the soundtrack consisted of CD audio, budgetary constraints forced Nathan to produce it in a MIDI studio: "I've never worked with an orchestra and had just a couple of synths — nothing spectacular. I had a Korg O1/W, an Ensoniq SQ1 Plus and a Roland D20. It was a bit of a bodge job, but it worked." - stated in the interview from soundonsound.

In the interview with MuzikXpress Olivier was asked which instruments were used on his 1992 underground Techno hit "Anasthasia". Olivier replied, he only relied on Roland D-20 and Akai S950. Same modules were also mentioned in another interview with Lucien Foort, who worked with him year earlier on another successful project Quadrophonia.

Olivier also mentioned sampling Oberheim Matrix 12 and Roland TR-909 at Target Records.

Finn Dalbeth recently purchased and subsequently sold a Roland D-20 synthesizer, as documented in a Tumblr post.

To access link use https://archive.org/web/ aka the waybackmachine

When he arrived back in Finland in 1994, Aleksi began sending demo tapes to Rephlex. By ’97 Aleksi had customized his Roland-D20. His sound was now more personal; distorted yet friendly. Rephlex had now heard it and his perseverance and dedication paid off. The energetic and diverse debut album Lactavent was released under the pseudonym Ovuca in ’99. The album included the best of his demo tapes ’89-‘97. Aleksi then started playing gigs internationally as Ovuca (a self invented word reflecting the self construction of his music without the aid of a computer).

Seen in the linked picture.

A photograph from 2010, available on Facebook, definitively shows keyboardist Gregg Dokes utilizing a Roland D-20 synthesizer.

Iñaki Vázquez confirmed the purchase of the Roland D-20 synthesizer after selling his Yamaha DX9, as mentioned in his interview with Focusrite Group Latam on YouTube. With this synthesizer he began to make sequences.