On the Loopmasters page for "Carl Cox Collective - My Life In Music," Carl Cox is shown using the Yamaha CS-30 synthesizer.

Legowelt presents a number of tracks on this page featuring nothing more than the Yamaha CS30: "Last month I jammed on this thing for a whole night and came up with these tracks, its all CS30 multitracked with some reverb and delay effects".

the top keyboard is a Yamaha CS30, pic from 2015

In his My Studio feature for Attack Magazine, Mathew Jonson writes: "The Yamaha CS-30 is from outer space. I don’t know how anyone could use this for making normal sounds really because the tuning is so bad… or maybe I just have to open it up and recalibrate it. I got it for nothing on eBay and when I opened up the case it was filled with dirt. Maybe it was a leftover from a flood or something. Anyways, it actually works – I’m just not sure what it’s been doing the last 20 years."

In this image a frontal view of a Yamaha CS-30 can be seen on the table (across from The Seven Fields of Aphelion).

"Yeah. My parents bought me a synthesizer during high school. The Yamaha CS-30. It had an 8-step sequencer as well. The CS-30 was an analogue synthesizer, so you could do things like filter sweeps on the oscillators. I was really interested in sound design, making a sound that sounded like a lion’s roar, for instance. It sounded pretty real, and I would proudly show off my patches to everyone. I loved figuring things out by twiddling knobs on analogue synthesizers, I thought it was awesome how many different sounds it could produce. At this time, more than an Electone player or pianist, I saw myself working in sound effects. I was also potentially interested in being a mixing engineer. With those goals in mind, I enrolled in the Osaka School of Arts."

The credits of the Casiopea album Make Up City lists that he used this instrument.

"Oh, and I also got an 808, a Yamaha CS-30, an E-MU sampler and, eventually, a Juno-106."

Yamaha CS-30 is included in the equipment list.

"We'd never had a synth with a 3-way filter - always low-pass - apart from the Yamaha CS30 which we never learned how to use."

"I also used a bunch of different modules as well as the René. I've got lots of Intellijel modules, and I put a lot of parts through the Korgasmatron for shaping and stereo filtering or phasing effects. I also use both my Prophets, the 5 and the 8, just because they're the best pad machines out there. They're so rich. I use the [Roland] Juno and the [Korg] MS20s a lot, and I used the Siel Orchestra quite a bit and my [Yamaha] CS30s. I use everything. I just kind of sit there and everything's in arm's reach. I have a little bit of a preference towards the more recent stuff, but seeing as everything's there, I will use it."

In a Facebook post, Kid606 features the Yamaha CS-30 synthesizer, highlighting its role in his music production setup.