Hey all,
So today I was speaking with some folks from Elektron and wanted to pass along some of the details of that conversation...
The plans for the Octatrack OS looks like this. In time for the Frankfurt Musikmesse an OS opening up for external MIDI control of the Octatrack will be released. It will allow tracks and samples to be externally trigged and samples to be played back chromatically from an external MIDI device. This OS will also contain various interface tweaks and menu layout updates.
OS 1.0 will be released some weeks later. It will contain the MIDI sequencer, improvements to the sample playback, a real-time recording mode and a slew of other nice things. The next major OS revision after OS 1.0 will contain a new machine dedicated to looping duties.
They will of course continue to release smaller OS updates, aimed at squashing eventual bugs while possibly also introducing smaller features and tweaks. Such an OS, OS 0.995, will be released next week.