Teenage Engineering CA-X

Installing this protection on your pocket operator (PO) is an ambiguous experience. Not in the last because you need to remove the hinge from the PCB, which can mess up your board when not done appropriately. next to that, although meant to be removed by teenage engineering, the PO with the hinge has an own style... The protection could be cut on the top part to slide the hinge through, I did not do that, and I would guess it is not so easy to cut the good quality rubber.
The biggest plus I would call the somewhat more protection on the battery compartment (battery poles are covered).
The biggest minus is that the PCB screening is covered, which is normally different for each PO, and thus the functions must be remembered. Next to that the cover does offer slight, but not much protection for the PO display.

I've bought this casing for a PO Tonic as I think the bare PO's feel too fragile for frequent usage. As there is no specific casing for the Tonic (or other newer model operators) you're automatically stuck with this general model, which doesn't have the exemplifying symbols on the buttons like the model specific 'pro-cases'.

Although the build quality is decent I think for almost 40 euro's it's too expensive of a peripheral, but as this is teenage engineering it is to be expected.

My biggest gripe at the moment is that older, cheaper (29,- euro), specific casings like the CA-12 are discontinued, so if you have a PO-12 and want pro-case protection you're stuck with this one.

I purchased this for my PO-32 to provide protection during gigs, and was really impressed with the quality, it fits perfectly and encloses the PO32 so that it stretches over the unit like a glove and will not come off in everyday use.

It also comes with a lanyard, to encourage you to wear it around your neck, It makes a really neat fashion accessory, for making beats on the go.
The lanyard is well made, so there is no risk of the hoop fraying.

The case does not interfere with the built in microphone or speaker so you can sync beats with the upload software and playback without issues.

Also the case has tiny cutouts so you can clearly see the LED status.

The case makes a real difference to learning the unit's operation, with the pictures on the keys helping to assist in remembering all the key combinations,

I would definitely recommend the case for the pocket operator. The PO32 is quite an expensive unit and without the case it is pretty fragile,
In my opinion it really should ship with this case by default, but I can see why it doesn't to keep costs down.

Strongly recommend :)