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SF2ECW V1.0a by Tgames
Convert any SF2 (SoundFont 2) to ECW (Ensoniq Concert Wavetable)
for Creative Sound Blaster Sound Cards
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After more than 26 years, we now finally have a way to make our own ECW files for all Sound Blaster Sound Cards !

Very easy to use, just grab any .SF2 file and convert it to .ECW format using sf2ecw.

Tested successfully with a Audigy 2 ZS card !


Usage:
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sf2ecw.py bank.sf2 output.ecw
sf2ecw.py --dump file.ecw

Example :
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sf2ecw.py SC_55.SF2 SC_55.ECW


Note: More the .ECW is big, more the init of the Sound Blaster driver will takes at DOS boot.
If you use the "big" SC-55 soundfont it can takes up to 5 minutes to start DOS.
In that case, grab a very optimized one, it exist around 9mb and will load in 30 seconds.

I've tested a lot of .SF2 files converted to .ECW and theCreative driver load and play them correctly.
You will only notice a slight degradation because of the format but will sounds a lot better than the default .ECW files we had back then !