Aphex Twin

Here's a photo that is clearly Richard James and clearly an Xone:96, as evinced by the silver color and the 4 faders at the bottom.

Per this excellent post from Oct. 2020 on the Lanner Chronicle blog, Richard James (AKA Aphex Twin) used a Nakamichi CR-7E to encode some of the master tapes from Analog Bubble bath, and likely others.

The post directly references and dates Soundcloud posts Richard James had made at the time:

“here is a download gift / sneak tease for the fans, to show the kind of quality I’m extracting from my old cassettes using mega high quality cassette decks. Because I’ve customised the decks with vari-speed, I get to choose what speed I encode them at, I’ve done a few different speeds for my fave ones and it’s usually just what I think sounds good at the time or just different to what I’m used to. This one is from a That’s cassette labelled copy III , i used a lot of the VX90 tapes in that period of my life. It is the 12th track on side a. Even though I used to write COPY *.number, they were actually the original masters. Think was one of the first tracks that a small section with intentional microtuning, [harmonic series sec] .Encoded with customised Nakamichi CR7e cassette deck.

+added, it cuts out at the end coz the tape ran out 🙂 I remember sometimes recording tracks to cassettes, I’d be looking at the cassette nearing the end and try and finish the track before the tape ran out 🙂 bit different from todays recording methods .”