acestep-5Hz-lm

Model Details

🚀 ACE-Step v1.5 is a highly efficient open-source music foundation model designed to bring commercial-grade music generation to consumer hardware.

Key Features

• 💰 Commercial-Ready: Unlike many models trained on ambiguous datasets, ACE-Step v1.5 is designed for creators. You can strictly use the generated music for commercial purposes.
• 📚 Safe & Robust Training Data: The model is trained on a massive, legally compliant dataset consisting of:
  • Licensed Data: Professionally licensed music tracks.
  • Royalty-Free / No-Copyright Data: A vast collection of public domain and royalty-free music.
  • Synthetic Data: High-quality audio generated via advanced MIDI-to-Audio conversion.
• ⚡ Extreme Speed: Generates a full song in under 2 seconds on an A100 and under 10 seconds on an RTX 3090.
• 🖥️ Consumer Hardware Friendly: Runs locally with less than 4GB of VRAM.

Technical Capabilities

🌉 At its core lies a novel hybrid architecture where the Language Model (LM) functions as an omni-capable planner: it transforms simple user queries into comprehensive song blueprints—scaling from short loops to 10-minute compositions—while synthesizing metadata, lyrics, and captions via Chain-of-Thought to guide the Diffusion Transformer (DiT). ⚡ Uniquely, this alignment is achieved through intrinsic reinforcement learning relying solely on the model's internal mechanisms, thereby eliminating the biases inherent in external reward models or human preferences. 🎚️

🔮 Beyond standard synthesis, ACE-Step v1.5 unifies precise stylistic control with versatile editing capabilities—such as cover generation, repainting, and vocal-to-BGM conversion—while maintaining strict adherence to prompts across 50+ languages. This paves the way for powerful tools that seamlessly integrate into the creative workflows of music artists, producers, and content creators. 🎸

• Developed by: [ACE-STEP]
• Model type: [Text2Music]
• Language(s): [50+ languages]
• License: [MIT]

Evaluation

🏗️ Architecture

🦁 Model Zoo

DiT Models

LM Models

🙏 Acknowledgements

This project is co-led by ACE Studio and StepFun.

📖 Citation

If you find this project useful for your research, please consider citing:

@misc{gong2026acestep,
	title={ACE-Step 1.5: Pushing the Boundaries of Open-Source Music Generation},
	author={Junmin Gong, Yulin Song, Wenxiao Zhao, Sen Wang, Shengyuan Xu, Jing Guo},
	howpublished={\url{https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5}},
	year={2026},
	note={GitHub repository}
}