Sound on my MacOSX. Strange to say the least.

I successfully intalled iLife '06 on my home machine. Since I don't really care about the other iLife items except Garage band so that's what I installed, and it seems to work fine. But I found out that Garage band does NOT take the system Sound In and Out setting and instead go directly to take the AC97 sound in and out. For instance, my Firewire based audio interface M-Audio Firewire Solo was being recognized by the system without problem. The System Perference shows it and I set the Firewire Solo as the default audio in and out put. Yet Garage still insist on using the AC97 sound card for output, and I still need to figure out where the heck it takes input from.

On the bright side, other apps like browser takes the Firewire Solo as sound out properly. So I can use Padora to listen to music directly from my Firewire Solo. Sweet.