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?

[Levon River]

I reiterate my former comment, I have been using the EZ for months and never had a problem like that: even better, if I turn the EZ off and turn it back on, it is restored as the default device everytime.

Define "default device."

What I do NOT do is use the AMS to set it ip;

Why do you NOT use AMS to set it up? I hate to provide penetrating glimpses into the obvious, but the NAME of the program Apple provides with its OS is "Audio MIDI Setup." I didn't name it that; they did. Where else would you logically SET UP an AUDIO interface?

in the system prefence, in "Alert" I have "Selected output device".

Define "Selected output device." How is that same device identified in AMS? (HINT: It's not as "Selected output device." BTW, I didn't create this maze of logical inconsistencies--I'm just trying to navigate it.)

I said above, I want to make sure that my alerts do NOT go through my audio interface, amp, and speakers. That's why I'm asking you to define "Selected output device."

In "Output" I have "EZbus" selected

So do I. But "Output" is of *what*? And, in fact, what is the "Built-in audio controller"? Where is that defined? Is it part of Core Audio? If so, are the signals ultimately destined for the EZBus going through it *anyway*? If so, why are they presented as discrete items. These are the obvious, logical questions about *routing* that anybody who wants to understand--and therefore be able to control--his signal paths expects to be able to find out. The way it currently exists, it is HIDDEN from the user and undocumented. It's a shell game. There is no visual feedback of the actual routing, there is no documentation, there is no clarity.

This is my whole point. The AMS audio pane give this inexplicable--and ENTIRELY unexplained--behavior. So far, nobody has been able to adequately and logically explain it or tell me what is going on. You telling me what you do hasn't changed this inexplicable behavior in that pane one bit. It still does *exactly* what I described.

In "Input" theres only EZBus to select, so I select it.

Right. Hobson's choice.

In AMS, the "Selected Audio Device" does NOT change any setting related to the audio,

Oh, well, that makes total sense.

that popup is there to select the device you want to EDIT the parameters from. It will ALWAYS reset to the first entry when you relaunch.

*What* "first entry"?! "First" *where*? I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. "First" implies the existence of a list of choices. *Where*?

The only way I know to change the default input is to use the System Preferences. I don't think you can do that from AMS

Gawdalmighty. How do you buy your way off of this merry-go-round. There is NO CHOICE in System Preferences/Sound for INPUT, which *you* JUST SAID, above. There is ONLY the EZBus. My *entire* POINT is that AMS, though, keeps the (nowhere defined) "Selected Audio Device" set to (also nowhere defined) "Built-in audio controller." It doesn't say "Selected Audio INPUT Device." It doesn't say "Selected Audio OUTPUT Device." It just says "Selected Audio Device." You seem to insist that this makes sense in some universe.

The DEVICE that I, in System Preferences, have *selected* (please note that word) BOTH for INPUT, AND for OUTPUT, is EZBUS. Yet in AMS, the "Selected Audio Device" ALWAYS changes back to "Built-in audio controller." Now, I can't explain the *utter* ILLOGIC inherent in this dog's breakfast any better than herein, so if it still isn't crossing the void, the lines are down in Wichita.

Levon