Here's the Yamaha Kx 88 laying below the Dx7 in this live concert.

David used it as a main MIDI controller for his modules in the 80's

In use while on tour in the 80's

In their most famous concert, The Dance, Fleetwood Mac's Christie McVie is using a Yamaha KX88 master MIDI-controller.

"I used a Korg T3 which belonged to Dead Or Alive, and that has a lot of good string sounds. Cubase was the main software package, although it wasn't used throughout, as there's not even timecode on some tracks. The Yamaha grand piano was there, and a Korg M1. I had a Fishman pickup on the viola, which is a fantastic English design, and a Barcus-Berry violin. I used my old Oberheim polysynth, and an Akai S900 sampler with a lot of 8-bit violin samples done for the first solo album, which were still perfectly good thank you very much! Then there's a D550 module, an Oberheim Matrix 1000, a lot of drum samples on an Akai S1000, some from an Alesis drum machine, some Prophet VS, a few bits from a Yamaha TX816 rack, and an OSCar solo on 'Ukraine'. I still use the Yamaha KX88 as the master keyboard because I like the touch, but it could do with more splits and it's not very easy to program. But there's less equipment here than on my first solo album — I hadn't really rushed out to buy any new equipment."

In the YouTube video, a VHS by Victory Videos-180-The Zone-UndergroundZone, Michael W. Smith is clearly seen using the Yamaha KX88 Synthesizer during a live performance, particularly between the timestamps 9:00 and 9:10.

In an interview with Sound on Sound, Tom Lord-Alge includes the Yamaha KX88 Synthesizer in his gear list.

In a 1986 performance at Wembley, Mike Lindup can be seen using the Yamaha KX88 Synthesizer. The image from this event is available on Ebayimg, showcasing the instrument in action.

In this tour photo (from the History Tour), Brad Buxer can be seen using a Yamaha KX88 keyboard.

Schnell plays a Yamaha KX88 in this 1986 Keyboard solo

David Sancious, renowned for his work as a keyboardist and guitarist, is seen using the Yamaha KX88 Synthesizer in a video of Sting's performance of "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You," uploaded by YouTube user edenique. Sancious, a former member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and a 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, has an extensive career as a session and touring musician with artists like Stanley Clarke, Eric Clapton, and Peter Gabriel.

Levine thus now generally works on projects with smaller budgets, and his small but top‑quality home studio is the ideal tool. Perhaps it's time to examine the gear that's packed into Levine's tiny room. Levine: "I've built this selection of equipment up over many years. I've refined it to exactly what I want. My synth collection had grown to enormous proportions at one stage and has now shrunk back to the things I decided I really need. Technology moving on helps: I used to have three Akai S‑series samplers, and now just one Emu EIV with 128Mb of RAM and a 1Gig Jaz drive does the same job. The Emu is a brilliant machine with great filters. Many people don't program or process their sounds any more these days, through inexperience or laziness. It does take some patience, but I think it's very satisfying when you make a great, new, fresh, sound. The other day I created a pad sound that sounded vaguely like an evolving Wavestation patch, a looped and filtered 15‑second sample of a river and a nondescript breathy flute‑like sound from an old CD‑ROM. It was a fantastic surreal pad sound. So it does pay to experiment." Levine is known for having a large sample library, and he's even made some sample CDs.

The master keyboard in use in Levine's studio is a Yamaha KX88, and other sound sources include Roland U220 and D550 synth mdoules, Roland R8M drum module, Ensoniq ESQ1M synth module, Korg Wavestation AD and Yamaha TX802 synths. Right next to them is an Atari Mega 4 with hard drive. Levine: "In all honesty, I can do everything on the Atari that my Mac with Notator Logic software upstairs can do. I have the Atari in my studio because the majority of people I'm working with use an Atari, and it's absolutely fine for sequencing and synth editing. Unless you want to do hard disk recording there's no point in getting rid of your Atari. My hard disk recorder and editor is still the Akai DD1000, because of the instantly‑removable cartridges. I record all my audio onto my ADATs and then use the DD1000 for editing real drums or guitars and cleaning up things, or making vocal comps."