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The most powerful local music generation model that outperforms almost all commercial alternatives, supporting Mac, AMD, Intel, and CUDA devices.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 4 stories, 4 comments · first 2026-02-03 · latest 2026-10-14

Mentions per year 8 mentions · busiest year 2026 (8)
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    Ace-Step 1.5 Open-Source Music Generation Model
    story by sanbor · 2026-10-14 · 0 comments
  2. Ace step 1.5 is great, only 1.5b params so very easy to run locally. https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5
    comment by falloon · 2026-02-17 · in Claude Sonnet 4.6
  3. …Curious how others here are prompting ACE-Step — especially for groove-based music. resource: https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5
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    Ace-Step 1.5 prompt tips: how I get more controllable music output
    story by DanielWen · 2026-02-09 · 3 comments
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    Ace-Step 1.5
    story by smusamashah · 2026-02-05 · 0 comments
  6. Github https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5 HF https://huggingface.co/collections/ACE-Step/ace-step-15 Paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00744 Demo https://huggingface.co/spaces/ACE-Step/Ace-Step-v1.5
  7. …a few songs License: MIT, free for commercial use Data: fully authorized plus synthetic GitHub: https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5 Weights/Training code/LoRA code/Paper are all open. Closed-source commercial models dominate AI music…
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    SHOW HN:AceStep1.5an on-device music model that beats Suno on common eval metric
    story by DanielWen · 2026-02-03 · 1 comment