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ACE-Step: free local music generation

Open-source music model for royalty-free beds you generate on your own machine.

ACE-Step: free local music generation

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Try it in 60 seconds

pip install triton-windows
git clone https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step.git
pip install -e .

Install command copied from the project README. Check the README for the latest version.

What it does

Open-source music model for royalty-free beds you generate on your own machine.

Project | Hugging Face | ModelScope | Space Demo | Discord | Technical Report | ACE-Step v1.5

We introduce ACE-Step, a novel open-source foundation model for music generation that overcomes key limitations of existing approaches and achieves state-of-the-art performance through a holistic architectural design. Current methods face inherent trade-offs between generation speed, musical coherence, and controllability. For instance, LLM-based models (e.g., Yue, SongGen) excel at lyric alignment but suffer from sl…

Quoted from the README of ace-step/ACE-Step.

Inside the repo

Table of Contents📝 Abstract📢 News and Updates✨ Features🎯 Baseline Quality🎛️ Controllability🚀 Applications🔮 Coming Soon📋 Roadmap🖥️ Hardware Performance📦 Installation1. Clone the Repository

A prompt to try

upbeat lo-fi house, 118 bpm, warm keys, no vocals, 30 seconds

Written by us so you can reuse it. Replace each [bracket] with your details.

Step by step

  1. Install per README.
  2. Prompt with style, BPM and length.
  3. Export WAV into your edit.

Docs, demos & materials

Sources & credit

All credit to the original authors. We rewrite in our own words and link back. Something wrong? Report it.

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