In the YouTube video "David Bryan Keyboard Lesson # 1" by Petsitterincharlotte, David Bryan discusses his use of two Yamaha TX816 units during the 1980s and 1990s. Their distinctive FM synthesis can be heard in many of Bon Jovi's hits, including "Livin' On A Prayer."

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.

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 I think it was originally made for the small church market in America so that they could get the sounds they needed without buying a huge church organ.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

IN ADDITION TO his work with electronic percussion devices, Erskine has jumped headfirst into the synth and MIDI fray. His home studio contains a Casio FZ1 and CZ101, a Roland Super JX, a Korg DW8000 and Poly 800, a recently MIDI'd Oberheim OBXa, a Yamaha DX100 and Yamaha RX5, PMC1 and TX816.

"We all work a bit differently though — Jim and Adrian tend to go through presets, but I always go to manual and make up my own sounds. On the DX7 we always use presets; we started to do programming but it's difficult because there are six of everything and eight-stage envelopes. We have the Syco Logic MX1 board which holds 128 memories fitted in the DX7, and that's 90% full — and we have the sounds from the TX7 Expander which we transfer into the TX816 one or two at a time."

According to a list of equipment which is used in his studio, Crowdspacer, Joakim is also a user of Yamaha TX816.

Mike Lindup utilizes the Yamaha TX816 in live performances, as evidenced by photos available on Vintagesynth.

David Rosenthal's understage control center includes a Yamaha TX816, as confirmed by Keyboard Magazine.

A TX-816 can seen in the 6th image of this post made on August 12th 2022.

Yamaha TX 816 is included in list of instruments played by Suzanne Ciani.

According to Google Arts & Culture, Gunnar Mathias Michaeli used a factory preset from the Yamaha TX816, layered on top of an edited "Stab Brass" preset from the Roland JX8P, in the recording of "The Final Countdown." These sounds were primarily controlled live using a Yamaha KX76 MIDI controller.

Per Keyboard Mag, May 1986. Item is cited as a "TX rack with 4 modules", which narrows it down to the 816, the only modular TX product.