My nearly quarter-century old digital piano (A Yamaha Clavinova CVP-96) still looks and sounds great; the one telltale weak spot was the need to use floppy disks to either record what we played or play MIDI songs on the piano. I've got a pretty fair collection of Yamaha and 3rd party MIDI diskettes (about 35), and I was getting tired of dealing with the old media. I also lost a disk or 2 to wear and tear, so I started looking into alternatives and found GOTEK.
I bought the GOTEK drive from Amazon on Wednesday. Yesterday (Saturday), I tore the piano open (actually quite easy) and installed the GOTEK. I found the native software pretty confusing and hopeless. My second try was using FlashFloppy. I seemed to get the drive working with FF, but I was still struggling to build a proper flash drive with disk images that the GOTEK would be able to read. After a number of hours of frustration, I gave up.
So, I then moved on to the HxC2001 software. I found the software tools easier to use and deal with, and I liked HxC's support for MAC software tools. I hit one minor wall, when I tried to flash the GOTEK with the HxC software - I missed the part in the HxC documents about having to do the e-mail swapping of files to verify that I had made the firmware purchase. Once I overcame that obstacle, the rest was relatively easy.
I made a 6 disk thumb drive last night to test the unit and all went well. I'm now waiting for my wife to awake so that I can test my latest GOTEK thumb drive that contains about 40 floppies' worth of MIDI files - my entire Yamaha library.
Thanks to the HxC team for making such a great, useful product!
HxC GOTEK Emulator working on Yamaha Clavinova CVP-96 (1998)
Re: HxC GOTEK Emulator working on Yamaha Clavinova CVP-96 (1998)
So, now that the emulator is confirmed to be working, I took it out of the piano to upgrade the display to a 0.91” 128 X 32 pixel OLED.
What a difference! I can now see the disk names easily on the OLED display.
Very happy with this emulator. It makes the piano much more user-friendly!
While I had the piano apart, I pulled the entire keyboard assembly apart and cleaned every one of the 88 keys and all the internals. No more sticky keys!
Tomorrow I will put everything back together, and maybe I can post a short demo on how the emulator is working.
What a difference! I can now see the disk names easily on the OLED display.
Very happy with this emulator. It makes the piano much more user-friendly!
While I had the piano apart, I pulled the entire keyboard assembly apart and cleaned every one of the 88 keys and all the internals. No more sticky keys!
Tomorrow I will put everything back together, and maybe I can post a short demo on how the emulator is working.
Re: HxC GOTEK Emulator working on Yamaha Clavinova CVP-96 (1998)
Hello Bigbit ! I have a Yamaha Clavinova CVP96 and I bought a Gotek FlashFloppy with a screen and a rotating button that I installed (replacing the original Floppy Drive). When I turned on the piano the first time the screen showed “FlashFloppy+” and on the second line “3.42 384kb”. At this time I thought that everything’s fine. When I inserted my first thumb drive (8GB) prepared with the utility Winimage, the Gotek showed “ERROR 34” and I struggled a long time with this ERROR while trying many other tests. Then I created a structure on the USB key with an FF.CFG config file, and a complete image of a floppy disk containing many MIDI songs. The “ERROR 34” disappeared, and the Gotek screen showed “/ DISK001 “ and on the second line “000/001 T:00.0”. Then I pushed the button “PLAY” on the CVP96 but nothing happen, or a bip with the message NO SONG like if it ignored the Gotek. When I read your pots, It seems that I need to move to the HxC Floppy Emulator software. But before that I need to be sure that I have the right setup for the jumpers at the rear of the Gotek. As you have the same piano, can you tell me which jumpers setup you have? Many Thanks.