Eawpats.sf2 (Gravis Ultrasound)

eawpats.sf2 is a soundfont (.sf2) that emulates the sound of eawpats, a set of Gravis Ultrasound patches compiled by Eric A. Welsh.

Gravis Ultrasound was a soundcard found in IBM PC compatible system platforms.

A few other soundfonts for Gravis Ultrasound exist, but these do not properly emulate the original soundchip.

However, in 2015, on December 24th, a user named Bashe on ZDoom.org created a .sf2 file, known as "eawpaws - The Soundfont", or eawpats.sf2.

Over time, though, the original post's links became 404 pages; a link was later re-uploaded on February 7th 2018. As of today, eawpats can still be downloaded using the reposted Dropbox link on ZDoom.org.

eawpats is also one of the soundfont options found on SolMiRe - MIDI to MP3 Online Converter.

As of Friday February 21st, 2020, Bashe posted that eawpats may possibly be redone from scratch, making it sound closer to the original soundcard.

The current & only version can be downloaded using the Dropbox link on the ZDoom.org page!

Note: The .sf2 is in a .zip file! This is a commonly used method to compress the file to a smaller size.

Review
A popular soundfont to use, eawpats sounds almost identical to a real Gravis Ultrasound soundcard!

Out of the three possible Gravis Ultrasound soundfonts (the other two being Gravis Ultrasound.sf2 by PAT2DLS & Gravis_Ultrasound_Classic_PachSet_v1.6.sf2 by ArekR), this one is the best one to use, as the volume of each instrument is balanced, and there is not too much distortion on each instrument.

Also, it works well with software that supports Fluidsynth (such as VLC Media Player), and does not have any out of tune instruments, or any instruments in the wrong patches.

This is, by far the best Gravis Ultrasound .sf2 file to use!

Links
Current Version - https://www.dropbox.com/s/4hftbg8e0erf4fj/eawpats.zip?dl=0&file_subpath=%2Feawpats.sf2

ZDoom page about the .sf2 file (2 pages) - https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=50217