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Best Kontakt library for 80's synthwave sounds?

If you want to get away from samples, besides what Arturia is offering, you can also look at things like the Legacy collection synths from Korg. That is, if you can deal with the outdated and small GUIs. The Legacy synths cover things like the M1 and the Polysix. Not exactly an 80's synth (it debuted in 1990), but with that you also get the Wavestation. Both the M1 and the Wavestation are very well done, imo. With the legacy M1 you get ALL the extra program cards that Korg sold back then. With the legacy Wavestation you get ALL those extra program cards.

And then there is Repro from U-He, which brilliantly covers the Pro-One and the Prophet 5.

For drums, D16 group has very nice emulations of the TR808 and TR909, as well as the silver boxes.
 
If you want to get away from samples, besides what Arturia is offering, you can also look at things like the Legacy collection synths from Korg. That is, if you can deal with the outdated and small GUIs. The Legacy synths cover things like the M1 and the Polysix. Not exactly an 80's synth (it debuted in 1990), but with that you also get the Wavestation. Both the M1 and the Wavestation are very well done, imo. With the legacy M1 you get ALL the extra program cards that Korg sold back then. With the legacy Wavestation you get ALL those extra program cards.

And then there is Repro from U-He, which brilliantly covers the Pro-One and the Prophet 5.

For drums, D16 group has very nice emulations of the TR808 and TR909, as well as the silver boxes.

Repro and Diva are great for this genre. Phonec is the schnitzel too. So much fun!
 
Sorry if this has already been mentioned, I can highly recommend Splice if you're looking for drum samples. There's literally thousands of sample packs there, and there's some really nice synth wave stuff there as well. Besides, you can choose which individual samples you'd like to get instead of getting the full packs.
 
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