{"id":8398,"date":"2006-08-26T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/26\/sequentix-p3-2\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:46","slug":"sequentix-p3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/26\/sequentix-p3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequentix P3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My Finished Sequentix P3<\/a> while booting.
(Click for more completed photos…)<\/center><\/p>\n

Well, it’s done. After thinking about how to solve the problem and (restlessly) sleeping on it, I ended up realizing that if I bent one of the PCBs back towards the rear of the pots that things would fit into the case properly. (The bend can be seen here<\/a>.) After that I was able to finish assembling the P3 and get everything up and running.<\/p>\n

I had figured that if I bend the board back, either it’ll work or I’ll break some of the pots. If the pots break, I’m back to the worst-case scenario of having to replace all the pots. Clearly they didn’t, so all is good.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, after I walked back upstairs to my desk I found that Colin, the guy who runs Sequentix<\/a> (and a rather nice guy, from what I can tell) had seen my rather frustrated previous post regarding the pots and clearance in the enclosure<\/a> and wrote to tell me that due to some slight changes he has to bend the top pot board back on production P3s. It was rather reassuring to read that note and know that the problem I ran into wasn’t unique and that the solution of bending the board back is the ‘right’ one.<\/p>\n

So, yes. It’s all done. I’ve got a few more photos of everything up online. Here’s the more notable ones:<\/p>\n

In Progress Album: (photo gallery retired)<\/em><\/p>\n

· Main board and a pile of ICs and such for installation.<\/a>
\n· Wholly populated Sequentix P3 main board.<\/a>
\n· All cables for connecting the P3 boards, except for the short jumper between the main board and the I\/O board.<\/a>
\n· Top pot board, bent back so that the enclosure fits together properly.<\/a>
\n· Sequentix P3 front panel fitted with cables, ready to connect to the bottom of the enclosure and the main board.<\/a>
\n· Inside the bottom of the P3 enclosure, looking at the power connectors, mainboard, I\/O board, and jumper.<\/a>
\n· All cables inside the P3 enclosure connected, everything ready to close up.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Done! Album: (photo gallery retired)<\/em><\/p>\n

· The P3 triggering the x0xb0x, since it’s a good synth to learn with. I think.<\/a>
\n· Front view of the P3.<\/a>
\n· Angle view of the P3 booting, as seen above.<\/a>
\n· View of the Sequentix P3 showing the rear panel.<\/a>
\n· Sequentix P3 while receiving firmware update as SYSEX data via MIDI.<\/a>
\n· Firmware update complete, time to boot up with 3.1.006C.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Finished Sequentix P3 while booting.(Click for more completed photos…) Well, it’s done. After thinking about how to solve the problem and (restlessly) sleeping on it, I ended up realizing that if I bent one of the PCBs back towards the rear of the pots that things would fit into the case properly. (The bend\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13231,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions\/13231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}