Firewire for Audio Input

I have Soundtrack Pro 3 running a Mac Pro. I have a Canopus ADVC-100 A/D converter attached via firewire. I am able to successfully capture audio and video via the ADVC-100 using Final Cut Pro 7.
I would like to use the ADVC-100 to capture audio for Soundtrack Pro 3, however the firewire link does not show up in STP's recording inputs. The only options are: Default, Built-in Line Input and Built-in Digital Input.
I have the feeling that the problem may be that the ADVC-100 needs to be configured in OS X as an audio source. It does show up in the Profiler as sitting on the FireWire Bus.
I realize that I could simply capture the audio into FCP and then port it to STP, however I want to do voiceovers directly into STP.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, including smacks on the back of the head for obvious solutions which I have missed.
Cheers
Randy Mennie

Your feeling is right. It needs to be configured as an audio device. If you can't see it in Audio Midi set up (in Applications -> Utilites) and it doesn't have an audio driver, then it won't show up as an available input in STP.

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