Can anybody help with this. When you enable midi-in on PD (on XP) you get a warning in the message window, and it seems the warning is well made, because every time I set up PD to use my Midi controller XP fails to shut down properly. This is probably real beginner stuff (colour me n00b) but if anybody knows a work-around or fix for this I'll be really grateful; the lack of a stable midi-in is a bit of a barrier to performing with PD.

Thanks Dan