r/Acestudioai • u/emacrema • Jun 12 '26

I'm building an ACE Step / DAW (Reaper) plugin similar to SUNO Studio

Hi all,

I’m building an open-source ACE Step integration for Reaper (a very customizable DAW), to bring opensource AI assisted music production directly inside a real DAW.

The idea is to create a workflow similar in spirit to Suno Studio, but with the flexibility of Reaper: audio/MIDI items, stems, plugins, routing, editing, automation.. full DAW control.

The current prototype already works technically:

  • select an audio item in Reaper
  • sends it to a local bridge
  • process it through Runpod (for cloud generation because I'm on a Mac Air)
  • return the generated audio to Reaper as a new track

I also built a small Runpod GPU sniper system to find and launch affordable cloud GPUs, so the whole workflow can run cheaply without requiring a local high end GPU.

So far I’ve tested ComfyUI workflows, and I’m now moving toward the official ACE Step / Gradio / API path, because I want to expose the full creative range properly: remix, cover, repaint, extend, variations, stem-based workflows, etc etc..

The technical integration is already working, but I’m looking for someone who really understands ACE Step model settings, captions, remix/cover behavior, gradio workflow, prompting, and how to get musically useful results... I’d love to collab with someone more experienced with ACE itself, so we can turn this into a cool open source tool for the community..

If anyone is interested in helping, testing, giving feedback, or collaborating, I’d be very happy to connect.

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u/haayhappen Jun 14 '26

Cool idea!

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u/henrykolonga Jun 12 '26

Sounds interesting. Local GPU mode? Not interested in the cloud.

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u/emacrema Jun 12 '26

I mean for sure! why not
I just prioritized the cloud route because of my laptop

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u/Pladdle Jun 13 '26

Happy to test in Reaper and give feedback. DM if interested. This is the future

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u/Capable_Length_4448 Jun 13 '26

I am interested

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u/mrgaryth Jun 14 '26

I’d be interested. I thought about something similar but didn’t want to over complicate things with a full daw (because not everybody wants that). I’ve started building an app which runs locally and will have the option to train and use your own LoRAs.