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I didn't try what you suggested, but even without better control of the music with more structured prompts, I think the musicality of this system is much lower than what we have commercially. I made the following two songs with the system:

- http://rochus-keller.ch/Diverses/Ace-Step-v1.5_demo1.mp3

- http://rochus-keller.ch/Diverses/Ace-Step-v1.5_demo2.mp3

with the same prompt as e.g. this song https://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1428 which I made with Suno (though by first uploading my own audio, which I didn't try with ACE-Step). It doesn't take much to understand that there are worlds between these results.

Though I think it's very good that university researchers are on it and we can expect to have equivalent open-source systems one day.

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This. I found ACE-Studio 1.5's cover ability to be incredibly lackluster.

What actual musicians want is the ability to send in a unfinished song and then say something like "Add a percussive layer".

Or let me take upload two 4-bar loops (mp3 or MIDI) and then ask an AI-DAW to try to fully arrange them into a ABAB verse-chorus form to experiment with.

As far as I've seen Suno is the ONLY one that you can reliably pass in a 20-30 second melody and get something reasonably interesting and faithful to the original motif.

I've written a couple of articles where I played with transforming some of my existing compositions using AI so you can actually listen to the before and after.

https://mordenstar.com/blog/dutyfree-shop

https://mordenstar.com/blog/screwdriver-sonata