boobalanit/ACE-Step-1.5-SouthIndiaParaiLoRA

ACE-Step 1.5 Audio Model — SouthIndiaParaiLoRA 🥁

ACE-Step 1.5 | South Indian Parai Percussion | Tamil Folk | Dappankuthu | Thappu | Kuthu | Instrumental LoRA

⚠️ This LoRA is exclusively optimized for the ACE-Step 1.5 Audio Model. It is NOT compatible with Stable Diffusion, MusicGen, AudioLDM, or any other generative model.

A fine-tuned LoRA adapter for ACE-Step 1.5 trained on authentic South Indian Parai percussion — one of the world's oldest drum traditions, central to Tamil folk, festival, and ceremonial culture.

👤 Author

Boobalan Arjunan GitHub: @BoobalanArjunan HuggingFace: boobalanit

✅ Compatibility

Model	Compatible
ACE-Step 1.5 acestep-v15-xl-base	✅ Yes
ACE-Step 1.5 acestep-turbo	✅ Yes
Stable Diffusion (any version)	❌ No
MusicGen / AudioLDM / Suno	❌ No
Any non-ACE-Step model	❌ No

🎵 Audio Demos

Sample	Description
Sample 1	Dappankuthu street beat
Sample 2	Festival percussion loop
Sample 3	Parai rhythm pattern
Sample 4	Thappu groove
Sample 5	High energy kuthu
Sample 6	Ceremonial slow beat
Sample 7	Tamil folk rhythm

📦 Model Details

• Base Model: ACE-Step 1.5 (acestep-v15-xl-base)
• Training Data: 393 studio-quality Parai, Thappu, Thappattam & Urumi drum loops
• BPM Range: 80 – 172 BPM
• Training: 30 epochs on RunPod A40 (48GB VRAM)
• Final Loss: 0.48 (75.5% reduction from 1.97 baseline)
• LoRA Rank: 64, Alpha: 128

🚀 Usage

1. Clone the engine: ACE-Step-1.5-PlayGround--Engine
2. Copy adapter_model.safetensors and adapter_config.json into checkpoints/SouthIndiaParaiLoRA/final/
3. Launch the UI and select SouthIndiaParaiLoRA from the LoRA dropdown

🎯 Example Prompt

High energy South Indian dappankuthu street festival drumming, massive thappu and parai
percussion ensemble, aggressive folk rhythm at 150 BPM, 4/4 time

Lyrics: [Instrumental] | LoRA Scale: 0.85

📄 License

Apache 2.0