Hi Scott,
I've only got laptops (remember , I'm only home user).
I have an Audigy nx2 usb soundcard which allows me to load soundfonts without having to use ( midi yoke, live synth pro , asio4all & forte.) I can load up to a 140mb soundfont on my 512mb laptop.
Using forte, livesynth pro etc , I can load a font of round about 250mb's.

My new laptop has some sort of defacto audigy card built in, actually from what I can tell it's still the same sigmatel card as in my other dell, but the software gives it some of the same functions as my audigy nx 2 soundcard including loading soundfonts.

I think there's only a couple of soundfonts with xg drum mapping.
anotherxgsoundfont
Provitamin ( is gm, but as far as I can tell, the drums are mapped to xg).

They won't play your midi files back perfectly, as is, but with a bit of editing to the soundfonts ( rather than to the midifiles), you'll have something that could potentially last you for years. You just save them to disk & load them back in to your next computer.

I don't appear to have any latency with audigy, which was an issue with the Yamaha xg softsynth I used to use.

Until such time as Yammie bring out a good option, I'm staying with the soundfonts, the flexibility of the system is amazing.
There's a lot of freebies around & some good commercial ones.

Recently I've managed to find
Korg M1 Soundfount
Triton Orchestral Soundfont
Matrix 6 Soundfonts etc

best wishes
Rikki

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