Very practical
How is it possible to display rig name on the MIDI controller screen?
as briefly described in the video, using midi system exclusive, you can request the value of many parameters including the name of the rig as a string.
You obviously have to then process the midi data returned (which is another system exlusive message) and convert that data in order to output to your display device.
You could do this in a simple midi editor (something like midiOx?) but the data returned would be nothing more than a chain of numbers. The rig name is a series of ascii values (characters representd by numbers) You could of course build something using PC/Mac software but i am not educated enough to cover that.
I dont really use this pedal. It was more of a nerdy project to do a few years back. I do recall it took hours and hours.
summary-
in order to do something like this you need to understand about the following-
- midi protocol
- system exclusive (send and receive)
- ascii code
- hexadecimal numbering system
- microprocessor control and display
- some programming knowledge that can interact with midi data
if any of those mean little or nothing then i'd probanly suggest not going down this rabbit hole without doing your homework.