# ACE-Step 1.5 — open-source music generation foundation model # (April 2026). Hybrid diffusion + LLM architecture, Apache 2.0. # ~50-80 s for a 4-minute song on A6000; under 4 GB VRAM at idle, # ~10-12 GB during inference. Beats YuE / DiffRhythm on the # speed/coherence trade. # # We launch upstream's REST API (`infer-api.py`) instead of the # default `gui.py` (Gradio). The REST surface is what we'll point # clients + automation at; Gradio is dev-time eye candy. # # Image is built locally from upstream's repo via docker buildx git # context, same pattern as fish-s2. # # All tunables live in .env — edit that, not this file. services: ace-step: image: local/ace-step:${ACE_STEP_TAG} build: # Build from local Dockerfile (not upstream's git context) — we # ship a patched Dockerfile that fixes upstream's torch/cu126 # resolution bug. Playbook uploads Dockerfile alongside this # compose.yaml. context: . dockerfile: Dockerfile args: ACE_STEP_REF: ${ACE_STEP_SHA} container_name: ace-step restart: unless-stopped runtime: nvidia ports: # Container default for infer-api.py is 8000 (hardcoded # uvicorn.run(host=0.0.0.0, port=8000) — no flags). Map host # ACE_STEP_PORT to it. - "${ACE_STEP_BIND:-0.0.0.0}:${ACE_STEP_PORT}:8000" environment: - NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=${ACE_STEP_GPU_DEVICES:-1} # ACE_OUTPUT_DIR is read by acestep at generation time — keep # in sync with the bind mount below. - ACE_OUTPUT_DIR=/app/outputs # HF_HOME points the HuggingFace cache at the bind mount so the # ~5-10 GB checkpoint download survives container recreates. - HF_HOME=/app/hf_cache volumes: # ACE-Step has a HARDCODED checkpoint cache at # /root/.cache/ace-step/checkpoints — not honored by HF_HOME. # Mount our persistent dir there so model re-pull doesn't # happen on every container recreate. - ${ACE_STEP_CHECKPOINTS_DIR}:/root/.cache/ace-step/checkpoints - ${ACE_STEP_OUTPUTS_DIR}:/app/outputs - ${ACE_STEP_LOGS_DIR}:/app/logs - ${ACE_STEP_CACHE_DIR}:/app/hf_cache # Override upstream's default `python3 acestep/gui.py` with the # REST API entry point. infer-api.py self-binds 0.0.0.0:8000 and # exposes POST /generate + GET /health. command: ["python3", "infer-api.py"] healthcheck: # /health is the cheapest signal infer-api.py exposes — returns # 200 as soon as the FastAPI app is up. The pipeline lazy-loads # on first /generate, so /health says "process alive" not # "model warm". Good enough for a liveness signal; first # /generate has the ~30-60 s warmup baked in. test: ["CMD-SHELL", "python3 -c \"import urllib.request,sys; sys.exit(0 if urllib.request.urlopen('http://127.0.0.1:8000/health', timeout=5).status==200 else 1)\""] interval: 30s timeout: 10s retries: 3 # First boot pulls ACE-Step checkpoint (~5-10 GB) into HF cache. start_period: 600s labels: - homepage.group=AI Systems - homepage.name=ACE-Step - homepage.icon=mdi-music-note-eighth - homepage.description=Open-source music generation — 4-min song in ~60s, lyrics + style prompts (irv-ml1) - homepage.href=http://10.100.79.3:${ACE_STEP_PORT}