Ezbus/audio Midi Setup Weirdness, Anybody else experience this? Options

[Levon River]

For some weird reason that is entirely beyond my ken, Apple's Audio MIDI Setup will *not* retain the EZBus as the "Selected Audio Device." It's startin' to get on me nerves.

In the "Default Input" dropdown it has EZbus. In the "Default Output" dropdown it has EZbus. But for "Selected Audio Device" it has "Built-in audio controller" showing in the dropdown. If I drop it down, EZBus is there to select. So I select it (which then opens a whole "Input Section" that wasn't there before I selected it). So I quit Audio MIDI Setup. And *every time* I go back into it, it has changed "Selected Audio Device" back to "Built-in audio controller."

I've tried changing it, then rebooting. No go. I can't find any preferences file that I can trash. So now I'm at the end of my rope.

Does anybody know what in tarnation is going on here and how to fumigate the gremlins?

[philipturner]

Thanks for the tip. Basically I should forget about the Audio Midi Setup and use the Sounds control panel instead. Right?

I since found out from Event that the real problem is with Cubase SX that is unable to recognise two devices on USB (one for audio input and one for audio output). Apparently Apple and Event got it right, following the USB specifications. Steinberg decided to ignore the spec and left Cubase SX able to recognise only one USB device (for audio output).

I am so regularly amazed at how so-called 'professional' software developers are unable to get basic things right. It's rampant. But I guess that's business: new + not working = less investment + more revenue ; old + working = more investment + less revenue. IMHO it's about time the market figured out how to support effectively software developers that make products that work at the expense of those that don't. But that's another topic...