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+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