Getting Audio/MIDI to recognize my Digidesign 002 rack

I just upgraded from a G4 with Tiger to an iMac with Leopard. As I wait for Pro Tools LE to upgrade for Leopard compatibility, I thought I'd try to learn Garageband. Although I copied my old hard drive over to my new one and attached my Digi 002 rack to my firewire port, I can't seem to get the iMac to recognize it in the Audio/MIDI setup dropdowns (which only show built-in mic, etc.). Do I need to install some software or is there another step I'm missing? I'd appreciate any help--thanks in advance!

phusiak wrote:
(there is a an installation of Pro Tools LE already on it with the Asio driver provided by digidesign).
There have always been issues with Digidesign hardware that was really only intended to work with PT. I'm amazed that it works at all with Audition, quite frankly!
There is a version 7 driver update, and that might help, I suppose. The other thing to note is that both the PT ASIO and wave drivers are both very much single-client, and preview playing has always been a slightly separate issue as far as Audition is concerned, and that may well be why the only thing left in the OS that can play anything is the wave mapper (which has always been absolute garbage...). And make sure that the system sounds are turned completely off - that alone would stop the preview working, I suspect.
The other thing you could try doing is to install ASIO4ALL (free) on the machine as a replacement for the WIndows Audio Driver, and try using that instead - it's rather more forgiving, and is capable of integrating hardware rather well, one way or another. Also it gives you better diagnostics and a couple more options to try.
Other than that lot, there isn't a lot you can do, though.

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