Jonathan Cain

cain can be seen playing a Sg in this photo.

cain can be seen playing a tele in this photo.

cain can be seen playing a strat in this photo.

cain can be seen playing an explorer in this photo.

cain can be seen playing a 12 string strat in this photo.

Uses with Hammond C3

Used this piano to record Don't Stop Believin'

Cain uses the Jupiter-8 as his go-to synth during Journey's Frontiers album (1983)

Jonathan Cain uses the Jupiter-80 as his flagship synth currently.

Description of Cain's rig.

Interview explaining what Cain uses on his rig.

Switches with a CX3 and Hammond X3

Switches with a CX3 and Hammond X3

The next generation MOTIF 88-key Balanced Hammer Action music production synthesizer workstations

A huge total of 896 normal voices and 59 drum kits

"That little RadioShack cassette player fires up my Prophet 5 pretty well too, which is on display at the Hard Rock Hotel right now".

Cain used the Ensoniq TS-10 on the 2001 tour with Journey.

Just wondering as to what you all thought of the Jonathan Cain article in Keyboard? As a product of the 1980�s Jonathan has been a hero of mine, and I�ve had the pleasure of meeting him.

I already was aware of much of the information in the article, but found a couple of interesting tidbits regarding his gear that I wish were explored in more detail:

The article mentions that he MIDIs his Fazioli grand with a Kurzweil MicroPiano and Roland Fantom for added volume. I�m wondering if he uses all three of these piano sources simultaneously, if it is an either/or situation, or if he uses certain split points among the modules? In general, it seems that phasing issues would be a problem using all three.

The article also mentions that he uses his XK-2 with a Leslie. Previously, he used a Dynacord CLS-222. I wonder what type of Leslie he�s using and how it is set up (e.g., with a preamp), and how it�s miked? I�m having a hard time wrapping my brain around as to why he would upgrade to a Leslie without upgrading to an XK-3.