So who actually came up with the octatrack then?

[PeterHanes]

@jb

Is it one mans dream? A team of designers? … Im assuming whoever had the first vague idea of a concept must be pretty proud to have brought it into its current glory. Was it intentional? Was it a fluke that just evolved from the idea of a x0x style sampler/sequencer? Cause the thing really is one of a kind, Who came up with the elektron sequencer? Its gotta be someones idea, or is it just the great hivemind that we refer to as ‘elektron’?

Well, you can read the credits for each instrument in the manual, and a little internet searching will find you a lot of information about how the SidStation grew out of a student project, but here’s something from the old Elektron Users forum (the only post ever by Jesper Kouthoofd of Teenage Engineering ) from 2010 describing the creation of the OP-1, which also talks about the earliest concept of the Octatrack:
https://www.elektron-users.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=28&func=view&id=95826&catid=13&limit=9&limitstart=41

Here’s a very quick Elektron history:

Elektron from SID to RYTM - A History

and something from around the time of the OT’s introduction:

Tech Talk: Elektron (EB.TV Tech Talk)