"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 I think it was originally made for the small church market in America so that they could get the sounds they needed without buying a huge church organ.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."

At 4:09 in this YouTube video of Tears for Fears live at Massey Hall in 1985 on the Songs From The Big Chair tour, this clip taken from the documentary “Scenes From The Big Chair” shows the band performing “Shout” interspersed by interviews with Ian Stanley and Roland Orzabal. At 4:09 you can see a Prophet T8 on Ian’s synth rack. The use of a Prophet T8 live and in the studio is backed up by the following quote by Roland Orzabal from a 1984 interview

“The Prophet T8’s even better than the Five, I think it’s my favourite analogue synth. I like the piano-weighted keyboard — in fact everything I found wrong with the Prophet-5, like the fact that you had to use the modulation wheel for any modulation, seems to be put right on the T8. You’ve got in-built modulation, touch sensitivity, and I really like the Poly Mod.” – Roland Orzabal

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This photo from the writing sessions of Here's To Future Days in Ireland features a Prophet T8 synthesizer visible. Joe Leeway previously had a faulty Prophet-5, which he replaced with the newly-released T8 when it was released in early 1984. He then used it for the Into The Gap tour.

"I've got the complete Oberheim system (DMX, DSX and OB8), a Prophet T8, and I still use Prophet 5 now and again. I have got a problem at the moment though because it seems almost everything is going over to MIDI. I've actually got the very first MIDI OB8 - I had it converted. I'm pretty sure it's the first one because Chase Musicians - where I buy most of my synths - had only this one in stock: I got it for the studio and they wanted to keep it in the shop! (An Oberheim-sanctioned OB8 MIDI retro-fit has been available since January.) It's proved very useful for running the DSX sequencer with other synths."

Video of Firechild performing on the Prophet T8 in his studio.

Scott Warren is confirmed to use a Sequential Circuits Prophet T8 during live performances with Dio, as evidenced by a photo shared by Scott Warren himself on Facebook.

Rupert Hine utilizes the Sequential Circuits Prophet T8, as evidenced in the article "The Thinking Man's Guide To Production" from Electronics & Music Maker, June 1986. In this article, Hine mentions using the Prophet T8 on the Thinkman album and describes it as "the best analogue synth around at the moment."

According to an article from Sound On Sound, Pete Namlook purchased a Sequential Circuits Prophet T8 near the end of the 1980s.

"A Prophet T-8 was the main controller, although not used all that much as sound source. A Yamaha DX-7 and TX-7 were used for all the electric piano sounds. A lot of the strings were a combo of two Roland synths, the MKS-70 and the D-550. I used an Akai s1000 a lot and a Linn 9000 as sequencer, drum machine (this was before powerful computers were easy to transport). An Emulator 2 was used for the guitar and many other samples."

You can spot a T8 in the background and lowest position.

In this interview with The Fixx, it is mentioned that Rupert Greenall uses a Sequential Circuits Prophet T8.