Talk:Elektron Octatrack

Reliable Sources

The Elektron website (www.elektron.se) doesn’t seem to maintain addresses for press releases describing their older products.

The product came with a manual. I think that is reasonably verifiable for the product description facts it contains, I plan to use it to add basic information to this article.

Some interesting encyclopedic content I can think of for the Octatrack (not Mk II) is what influenced its design, how and where it was manufactured, and what significant live events, recordings, or acts use it. But I’m not aware of reliable sources for these ideas. Do you know any newspaper or magazine articles where interviews of Elektron employees were done, or where artists were interviewed and mention their use of it for a work?

Referencing information that can be found by disassembling an Octatrack seems verifiable.

TextApps (talk) 17:19, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Summarized it with information from the manual

I just added a straightforward description based on the manual reference.

I don’t have a source that shows who manufactured and sold the Octatrack. Did Elektron involve a third party manufacturer? I’d like to include something like this sentence:

"The Octatrack was manufactured at Elektron’s factory in Sweden during 2010-2016 and sold around the world through their website and through independent electronic instrument dealers."

I also don’t have a source for the Octatrack Mk II, I’d like to include something like this sentence:

"The Octatrack was discontinued on [date] then followed by the Octatrack Mk II."

The manual says the case is made of steel. While information like “there’s audio jacks” can be verified by plugging third party instruments into an Octatrack, verifying the case construction isn’t as straightforward. My understanding is that steel is the only material that will be both magnetic and possible to flatten into sheets like it appears the device is made of, so verification could be done by simply attaching a magnet. If I can find a textbook source for this verification approach then I’ll add the fact.

For a future addition: personally in an encyclopedic article I’d like to read about where Elektron sourced components, even down to where the materials were taken from the ground. This could be part of a Manufacturing section which simply points to the pages of suppliers that has this information.

Are there any public domain videos of notable acts using the Octatrack? That might be good to see near the top.

To verify that the D/A and A/D converter numbers of 44.1kHz 24-bit listed in the manual are correct I think we’d have to verify the circuitry by reverse engineering it.

TextApps (talk) 17:59, 3 December 2018 (UTC)