eawpats is a sound patches library for TiMidity++. This package contains a patchset for the TiMidity++ MIDI player. A patchset is required for MIDI files to be audible through TiMidity++. These patches also work with applications that use SDL_mixer for MIDI audio. Note that eawpats contains proprietary sound samples. According to the ALSA Wiki: "Half of the patches in eawpats are derived from original Gravis patches, and therefore may have some intellectual property issues." If this is a concern to you, use freepats instead (however, eawpats does sound nicer). For more information, see /usr/doc/eawpats-12/copyrigh.txt To use eawpats with TiMidity++ and/or SDL_mixer, edit /etc/timidity.cfg and make it look like this: source /etc/timidity/eawpats.cfg