ACE-Step 1.5XL SFT: Text to Music

Generate high-quality music from text prompts using a 4B parameter SFT model. Control output with CFG for precise prompt adherence.

Input

Song lyrics with section tags like [Verse] and [Chorus]. Leave empty for an instrumental.

Genre, tempo, key, mood, instruments, arrangement and vocal style.

Length of the song.

Advanced settings

Tempo in beats per minute.

Default: 120

How closely the music follows the description.

Default: 7

Musical key and scale.

Language the lyrics are sung in.

Leave empty for a new result each run. Enter a number to repeat one.

The SFT model is tuned for about 50 steps; fewer is faster but rougher.

Default: 50

Beats per bar (4 = 4/4).

Output
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About this workflow

This ComfyUI workflow turns text prompts into finished music using the ACE-Step 1.5XL SFT (4B) model. It follows a familiar diffusion pipeline adapted for audio: DualCLIPLoader and TextEncodeAceStepAudio1.5 convert your prompt (and optional negative prompt) into conditioning; EmptyAceStep1.5LatentAudio creates a latent audio canvas for your chosen duration; UNETLoader brings in the ACE-Step 1.5XL SFT model; and KSampler performs iterative denoising guided by CFG. ModelSamplingAuraFlow configures the sampler strategy tuned for ACE-Step audio, while VAELoader + VAEDecodeAudio convert the final latent back into a waveform that SaveAudioMP3 writes to disk.

Technically, CFG (classifier-free guidance) lets you balance creativity and prompt adherence: lower CFG values explore broadly, higher values follow your text more strictly. ConditioningZeroOut provides a clean unconditional branch if you don’t specify a negative prompt, ensuring stable guidance. Workflow groups (Model, Duration, Prompt) make it easy to swap checkpoints, set seconds, and iterate on prompts.

The result is a practical, reproducible text-to-music pipeline that can quickly iterate across genres, moods, instruments, and structure—ideal for ideation, temp scoring, and background tracks.

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