ACE-Step 1.5 on Mac Studio M2 Ultra

[bijlevel]

I did install ACE-Step 1.5 using pinokio on my Mac Studio M2 Ultra and I notice that there is only one main model available (acestep-v15-turbo) and options like Cover, Lego, Extract are missing. Is that intentionally? TIA! Sjoerd W

[H1ghSyst3m]

Isn't pinokio itself or their community the ones that make the installation scripts? As I know this repo even has portable packages with pre install dependencies

[bijlevel]

Thanks for answering. I don't know about installation scripts. I just followed the recommandation of the developer to install ACE using Pinokio. But when I started reading the tutorial it mentioned these options and models I don't see in my install. Maybe I should install it from this repo, but I'm not sure if that is doable for me. When Pinokio did the install, tons and tons of lines and downloads appeared in my terminal and it took quite some time to install. And after that, my harddisk was almost full ;-). If I have to do this manualy, I'm afraid that I make mistakes and the software won't run or maybe impaired...

[H1ghSyst3m]

Ah, I understand.
If you want to try it from this repo. This Link should let you download the full mac pre installed package.
When unzipped, you just need to run 1 command on first time.
open terminal in the ACE Folder after unzipped a and run this command: chmod +x start_gradio_ui_macos.sh start_api_server_macos.sh and maybe also chmod +x check_update.sh so the update script also works.

Then you just need to run the start gradio ui and api server, it should work. I myself am on windows, so I can't try macos myself.

The full tutorial is here

[bijlevel]

OK, I will try to install from the repo.

[bijlevel]

I did (kind of) succeed installing from the repo, but the result is the same, no extra models or extra options. But in one or another way this install produces weird music. It starts OK for a few seconds and then it repeats continuously very short soundsamples for as long of the duration of the song. This happens all the time. Compared to the Pinokio install it generates much quicker, but as said with bad musical results. So I deleted this install and reinstalled it again from Pinokio, but this time on another harddrive, because it consumes a lot of bytes! For the missing options in the interface Claude provided the solution by giving me the terminal code to download thebase model, which provides the extra options:

cd "path-to-pinokio-folder/pinokio/api/ace-step.pinokio.git/app"
uv run acestep-download --model acestep-v15-base

The base model was downloaded and after restarting ACE-Step, I could choose from the base model (which shows the various options like Extract, Lego etc,) or the turbo model. So all problems solved sofar!

Thanks for your help anyway!