I’ve been spending the last few weeks testing local music generation on Apple Silicon, mostly around ACE-Step 1.5 + MLX.

I’ve been spending the last few weeks testing local music generation on Apple Silicon, mostly around ACE-Step 1.5 + MLX. Sharing notes because most local AI discussion is still LLM/VLM/TTS-heavy, but music generation is starting to feel like another “actually useful locally” category. The main thing I underestimated: local music generation is not just about replacing Suno/Udio. The more interesting use case is cheap iteration. Cloud music tools are good, but credits change how you behave. You th