ACE

ACE-Step
A New Era in AI-Driven Music Generation

https://civitai.com/models/1557004

🚀 Highlights

• Blazing Speed

  • Up to 15× faster than LLM-based baselines

  • ~20 s for a 4 min track on NVIDIA A100

• Holistic Architecture

  • Diffusion-based Synthesis

  • Deep Compression AutoEncoder (DCAE)

  • Linear Transformer for long-range control

• Full-Song Generation

  • Durations from 30 s to 5 min

  • Natural-language prompts + lyric tags ([verse], [chorus])

🎶 Strengths

1. Musical Coherence
   Balanced melody, harmony & rhythm

2. Controllability
   Duration, style, structure

3. Style Transfer
   Remix genres or emulate artist textures

🤝 Ethical Use

• ✔️ Verify originality

• ✔️ Disclose AI assistance

• ✔️ Respect cultural & copyright norms

• 🚫 Avoid harmful or deceptive content

License: Apache 2.0
Developed by: ACE Studio & StepFun
Official Repo: ACE-Step v1-3.5B on Hugging Face