Hi Guys,
let me give you some hints:
to run sounddiver under windows xp (or Win2k) be sure you've set two parameters under "Setting->Communication":
2 Buffers per Port
1 kb per Buffer
This should solve the most problems. The latest versions of Sounddiver (and of course Sounddiver OEM) do this by default.
An update is available at:
http://www.access-music.de
another tweak is:
on the left side you find the device parameters. Try to increase: "Timeout" above 800, "Send Pause" to 450, Play Delay 100.
Be aware that the most of these problems are driver issues, not windows xp.
Also: Midi and XP is a very good combination. The people posting the opposite have (mostly) no idea what they are talking about.
tk