That covers the price before they were commandeered for the exclusive sale by Elektron with an extra 20 Euro added on top. That’s just an extra bit of profiteering cherry added on the cake.
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Yep. But I guess we can be thankful they aren’t Teenage Engineering…
That was my first thought! Spend a ton of money on gear and save $50 bastardizing a cover!
It reminds me when folks buy super expensive guitars and hang them on the wall with the cheapest wall hangers they could find!
To each their own!
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But this way we can afford more gear. 
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Yes, companies produce products to sell to make a profit. Luckily there are Tupperware lids and 3d printed options for anyone who doesn’t want to buy Decksaver. Maybe if enough people go with those options they will lower the price on the official one. But I doubt it.
Have you seen this?
The time spent getting it to fit could have been used playing that new gear!
Oh yeah, that thing is really stupid. But people love to buy overpriced stuff, so I don’t really blame anyone for selling it to them.
Why do we even need decksavers when we’re using the gear 24/7/365?
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That’s a weirdly judgemental phrasing… 
Perhaps I was interested in covering a digi machine or maybe just buying a bunch of cheap fishing cases to organizing bits and bobs like the original poster mentioned or…
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I use them as a coaster for my tasty beverages!
To this day I still don’t understand why people want plastic lids on their stuff… Buying a roll of fabric is both cheaper and more convenient if you need to cover your stuff for whatever reason.
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Fabric is cool but I like the plastic for protection. Lord knows I’ve gotten myself in enough trouble without protection!
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I’ve purchased plenty of stuff from Aliexpress so no judgement there. I also think decksavers are wildly overpriced so looking for alternatives is to be expected since they nearly have the market cornered due to the extreme setup and production costs for making such a niche product.
The statement is merely reiterating the reality of the situation, so interpret the phrasing as you like. It’s in a sense like these guys that spend $10,000 modifying their engine and then buy the $20 kragen air filter instead of spending a little more on a K&N air filter. At the outset it appears to be doing the same job, but the job that it’s doing is important and when you replace it with something under-engineered you get sub-optimal results.
In the case of an air filter, you get less filtration and more restriction as it becomes clogged faster, so the airflow suffers, and more particulates enter the engine which leads to shorter life over time.
In the case of a decksaver, it is intended to “protect your deck”, so that means against horror stories of carmel macchiatos and beers spilling. Against things dropping on it and dragging across it, etc.
If you’re looking for a dust cover then anything can serve that purpose, including the lid of a tacklebox. What it will not do is distribute impact evenly around the entire rim if something were to (god forbid) drop on it and similarly it will not prevent wear spots from appearing on the 4 corners where the contact is distributed across. It will not completely seal it against liquids, and the type of polymer used on these products is really an unknown as in will it have a reaction over time and discolor paint or break down or have an impact on the device.
While some of these things are unlikely, they are still unknowns. As far as I know decksavers are made of polycarbonate glass specifically because it is more impact resistant doesn’t suffer from some of the material breakdown issues that you find in other polymers.
So definitely not opposed to storing things in a tackle box, and also fundamentally unopposed to the $4 decksaver method, but I feel like a reality check is in order that what you’re paying for is the general appearance of a decksaver but what you get is a dust protector and a question mark as to how effective this will be for it’s intended purpose over time.
More useful than a placebo, but still less useful than an item designed to do what the alternative intends to emulate and probably worth being the bad guy and saying it out loud if nobody else wants to acknowledge it.
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They’re not perfect, as you’ll see, but they’re 1000% better than having no cover at all.
And they look cute. I’m thinking of doing a green one for my Digitakt even though I scored one with an official decksaver.
Just to annoy people:
Matching Syntakt/Digitakt
I noticed the lip on the green one (different brand) isn’t as tall as the lip on the pink one, it doesn’t go on quite as well. The green one had no sticker on the lid, get the one with the sticker I linked to above. I might get another green one for better fit.
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The main things to do are trim out the corner supports at the back (where the knobs are):
Notch the corners at the front (be sure to go far enough that there’s no curve left at all):
You can also trim the catches so they lie flat against the sides:
If that happens I garantee it’ll be better than not having anything at all. Also for flying liquids.
A cloth is good for dust but won’t help much with impacts/liquids.
It’s not cheap to make them and the market is exceedingly small.
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These devices have that horrible rubber stuff on the buttons. I never saw a rubberized gadget that didn’t eventually go sticky and nasty.
I fully expect to have to take these apart sometime in the future to remove the coating with alcohol. 
(Are there any reports of this on Elektron gadgets? I haven’t searched for that yet…)