I have been doing some audio recording experiments with the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB for linux audio recording. My setup tested using Ardour, with both a Pisound ($99) audio hat, and the MOTU M2 ($199). I also added an NVME SSD via the PCI bus found on the Pi5. It was super easy to install the OS to the SSD and I am very happy to say that both the Pisound/M2 work out of the box. All while booting to the NVME with a 64bit version of Debian 12 Bookworm. The reason behind this feat is that, by default, the Pi5 now uses Wayland and the Pipewire audio backend.

Disclosure: I believe the lead developer for for Pipewire and Ardour are the same person?

Lastly, get an active heatsink/fan and tweak your fan configuration settings. It’s not that loud and your pi will thank you.

Again I think the Pi5 is going to work great for embedded audio/video applications and after basic testing I think this will work great for my audio projects.

Thanks for your time.
Kit