Gyimah3/ACE-Step1.5-Zulu-Finteuned

ACE-Step 1.5 — Zulu Music LoRA

A LoRA adapter fine-tuned on 63 Zulu music tracks across traditional and modern South African genres, trained on top of ACE-Step 1.5.

Genres Covered

• Maskandi
• Amapiano
• Isicathamiya
• Kwaito
• Gqom
• Mbaqanga

Training Details

Parameter	Value
Base model	ACE-Step 1.5 Turbo
Dataset	63 Zulu songs
Epochs	500
Rank	128
Alpha	256
Batch size	2 (effective 8)
Best loss	0.4999
Hardware	NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada (48GB)
Language	Zulu (zu)

How to Use

Load the adapter in the ACE-Step 1.5 Gradio UI:

1. Launch the Gradio UI with acestep-v15-turbo as the main model
2. Under 🔧 LoRA Adapter, enter the path to the final/ folder
3. Click Load LoRA and enable Use LoRA
4. Set LoRA Scale to 1.0
5. Generate with Zulu lyrics and a South African music caption

Example Captions

Maskandi:

Maskandi guitar with Zulu male lead vocalist and choir in call-and-response harmonies, uplifting and nostalgic, 120 BPM, F major

Amapiano:

Amapiano track with Zulu male vocalist, log drum bassline, jazzy piano loops, handclaps, 114 BPM, A minor, energetic and joyful

Isicathamiya:

Traditional isicathamiya a cappella in Zulu with male lead vocalist and full choir, call-and-response structure, meditative and spiritual, 85 BPM

Example Lyrics Format

[Verse 1]
Ngiyahamba emthunzini wobusuku
Inhliziyo yami iyazibuza
Ngabe indlela engiyihambayo
Iyabathokozisa yini abadala

[Chorus]
Bayangibona, bayangizwa
Noma ngithule, bayangizwa
Bayangibona, bayangivikela
Ngihamba negama labo

[Outro]
Hamba kahle
Hamba kahle

Notes

• For best results use structured lyrics with section markers: [Intro], [Verse 1], [Chorus], [Bridge], [Outro]
• Disable INT8 Quantization before loading the LoRA adapter
• LoRA Scale between 0.8 and 1.0 gives the strongest Zulu style influence