Earphones plugged in, Garageband still outputs sound to external speakers

I hope I'm missing a rather simple Garageband setting. My Garageband projects are playing to my external speakers (plugged into the speaker jack on the back of my Mac Pro) rather than my earphones, plugged into the front earphone jack. I need the earphones to work as I'm in an office and need to keep the music quiet.
I went to system preferences and selected Output then headphones. All my other apps like iTunes and Safari play through to the headphones, Garageband plays to the speakers. What am I missing?
I already opened garageband Prefs > Audio/midi and audio output choices are greyed out.
Dale

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