Yurt Rock DECADE Ages a Drum Bus by the Year
Yurt Rock DECADE ages a drum bus from 1950 to now. The console, the room, and the playback format move together. Intro price is $49 and list price is $69.
Yurt Rock has released DECADE, a drum effect that treats the year as the control. The intro price is $49. List is $69. Drag along a timeline from 1950 to now and the console, the room, and the playback format move together. It is an effect on the drums you already have, not a sample library, though the intro includes a free copy of Indie Rock Drums Vol 1. This is a first look from the product page and Yurt Rock's official video.
At a glance: $49 intro / $69 list. VST3, AU, and AAX. macOS 11 or later, Intel and Apple Silicon. Windows 10 or later, 64-bit. The demo is the full plugin, and the output mutes for a moment every 45 seconds until you activate. No iLok. Up to three machines. 120 presets across eight decades.
What DECADE is
DECADE sits on a drum bus, a single snare, a loop, or a full mix. You pick a year by dragging left and right. Tone, saturation, filtering, compression, transient shaping, and room all move to what that year did. Yurt Rock's claim is specific: 1974 and 1979 are different settings, not one "seventies" preset with a new name.
The vertical axis is the room. Dead and close at the bottom, big at the top. Their example is 1980: the bottom of that year is a gated but small room, and the top is the full cathedral. Two knobs decide how far you lean. ERA blends the whole decade treatment against a flat rack. MIX brings the dry kit back underneath.
That is a different control model from a lo-fi plugin where you tick Noise, Wobble, and Distort one module at a time. Here the year is the instrument. You can still take any parameter off the map, set it by hand, and hand it back. You can also drag the signal path into a new order.
It is not a drum instrument. Programmed patterns, live kits, and loops all go in as audio. If you wanted a new break, the bundled Indie Rock Drums Vol 1 is a separate pack that comes with the intro purchase. The plugin itself does not play the samples.
Three layers on one map
Yurt Rock splits the sound into three layers that follow the puck.
The console is eight modules in studio order: input, tone, grit, filter, squash, hit, room, and output. Every value can be driven by hand. Dragging reorders the path, so the grit does not have to sit where a 1974 desk would have put it.
The room is size, decay, gate, pre-delay, and damping, scaled by the vertical position. A year can be dry or huge without leaving that year. The gate is how a small 1980 room stays small, and how a large one opens up.
The medium is the format the listener actually heard. Yurt Rock treats that as the strongest era cue. Acetate and tube radio in the fifties. Vinyl through the sixties and seventies. Cassette in the eighties. CD in the nineties. MP3 in the 2000s. Streaming now. It follows the year by default. Lock it and you can put a modern kit on 1967 vinyl, or run a 1950 performance through a current stream, without moving the console.
Six playback formats carry the damage that belongs to each medium: wow, flutter, crackle, rumble, dropouts, bit reduction, disc skip, spectral holes, and loudness normalisation. Each is modelled for its own era. It is not one generic lo-fi knob that you turn up for "old."
120 presets sit on the map, across eight decades, so the era is visible before you press play. A live display draws the dry signal against the processed one, and it shows the measured tail after every hit. You can see what the year removed, not only hear it.
Session behaviour
DECADE saves with the DAW project. After activation it runs fully offline, which is the point of the "no countdown, no account check while you mix" line on the page. There is no iLok and no dongle. A licence covers three machines, with self-serve deactivation.
Vault members do not buy it separately. Sign in inside the plugin and Decade is included with the Vault catalog. Yurt Rock's pitch there is to age a session drummer's performance into another era. The $49 licence is still a normal perpetual purchase if you are not a member.
The demo is the whole plugin: every decade, every preset, on your own drums, for as long as you like. No card. The output mutes briefly every 45 seconds until you activate. That is the only restriction the page describes.
Hosts they name are Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, and Reaper. Formats are VST3, AU, and AAX, so Pro Tools is in, not a footnote. macOS 11 or later covers Intel and Apple Silicon. Windows 10 or later is 64-bit. Use it on a drum bus, one drum, a loop, or a full mix.
DECADE specifications
| Spec | Detail |
|---|---|
| Price | $49 intro / $69 list. Direct from Yurt Rock. Intro includes Indie Rock Drums Vol 1 |
| Trial | Full plugin. Output mutes for a moment every 45 seconds until activation. No card |
| Type | Drum effect. Year timeline plus a vertical room axis |
| Layers | Console (8 modules), room, and playback medium |
| Console order | Input, tone, grit, filter, squash, hit, room, output. Reorder by dragging |
| Room | Size, decay, gate, pre-delay, damping, scaled by vertical position |
| Medium | Acetate and tube radio, vinyl, cassette, CD, MP3, streaming. Follows the year, or locks |
| Blend | ERA against a flat rack. MIX for dry signal underneath |
| Presets | 120, across eight decades, placed on the map |
| Analysis | Dry vs processed display, plus the measured tail after each hit |
| Formats | VST3, AU, AAX |
| macOS | 11 or later, Intel and Apple Silicon |
| Windows | 10 or later, 64-bit |
| Licence | Up to 3 machines. Self-serve deactivation. Offline after activation. No iLok |
| Vault | Included for Vault members. Sign in inside the plugin |
| Not included | A drum instrument. No Linux build |
| Buy | DECADE at Yurt Rock |
DECADE vs RC-20 vs Satin
RC-20 Retro Color is the one-plugin vintage color most people already reach for. Satin is a tape machine. DECADE is a year, a room height, and a playback format, aimed at drums.
| Yurt Rock DECADE | RC-20 Retro Color | u-he Satin | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $49 intro / $69 list, direct | Six-module lo-fi suite. Details on the RC-20 card | €129 on the Satin card |
| Control | A year on a timeline, room on the vertical axis, ERA and MIX | Noise, wobble, distort, degrade, space, and volume drops, scaled by one Magnitude knob | A tape machine: bias, wow, flutter, and tape EQ as the instrument |
| What moves together | Console, room, and the format the record was heard on | Whichever modules you enable | The tape path |
| Era model | 1950 to now, with 1974 and 1979 as different points. Six media, lockable | A general vintage texture. Not a dated timeline | Tape, not vinyl, CD, or MP3 |
| Presets | 120, placed on the decade map | Factory presets for fast color | Tape-machine presets |
| Formats | VST3, AU, AAX. macOS 11+, Windows 10+ | VST, AU, AAX. macOS 10.13+, Windows 10 or 11 | Tape plugin with its own format list on the card |
| Reach for it when | A drum bus should sound like a specific year, including the room and the medium | You want hiss, warp, and dropouts without picking a year | The color you want is tape, and only tape |
Which to pick. Buy DECADE when the note in the session is a year. "Make the kit 1976, small room, still on vinyl" is one drag and one lock, not six modules. Buy RC-20 when you want a vintage haze and you do not care which year it belongs to. Magnitude plus the six modules is faster for a general lo-fi drum bus, and it is the tool if the source is a vocal or a synth as often as a kit. Buy Satin when the assignment is tape: wow, flutter, and head bump as a machine, at €129, including on sources that are not drums. DECADE's cassette and vinyl settings will not replace a dedicated tape plugin if tape is the only color you use.
Who DECADE is for
Consider it if you produce with loops or programmed drums and you want the bus to land in a decade without building a chain of EQ, compressor, room, and a lo-fi plugin.
Consider it if you already have a live kit, or a Vault performance, and you want to age it. The effect runs on audio you route in.
Consider it if you work in Pro Tools, Live, Logic, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, or Reaper. AAX, VST3, and AU are all listed.
Consider it if the studio machine stays offline after install. Activate once. It does not need a connection to run.
Skip it if you came for a drum library. DECADE does not play hits. The Indie Rock Drums Vol 1 download is a separate pack bundled with the intro. The plugin still needs audio.
Skip it if you need Linux. The compatibility list is macOS 11 or later and Windows 10 or later.
Skip it if the drum bus should stay neutral and you only wanted a compressor. ERA can pull the treatment back toward a flat rack, but the product is era color. A clean bus compressor is a different plugin.
Skip it if your only color reference is tape and you already own Satin or a tape machine you trust. Use the tape plugin. Use DECADE when the year also has to change the room and the medium.
How much does DECADE cost?
$49 during the intro, $69 list, from Yurt Rock. The intro includes Indie Rock Drums Vol 1. There is no Plugin Boutique, Thomann, or Best Service listing. Checkout is on the Yurt Rock store.
The demo is the full feature set, with a short mute every 45 seconds until you activate. No card to start it. A paid licence is three machines, offline after activation, no iLok. Vault members get the plugin with membership and do not need the $49 purchase.
Delivery is immediate: an email with the download, and the files stay available on the account. Mac and Windows installers are separate downloads on the product page.
The short finder entry is the DECADE card.
FAQ
Is DECADE a sample pack?
No. It is an effect. It processes a live kit, a loop, or a programmed pattern you already have. The intro purchase also includes Indie Rock Drums Vol 1, which is a pack. The plugin does not require that pack to run.
Can I try it before paying?
Yes. The download is the complete plugin, every decade and every preset. The output mutes for a moment every 45 seconds until you activate. No card and no iLok.
Does it run in Pro Tools, and on Windows?
Yes. Formats are VST3, AU, and AAX. Windows 10 or later, 64-bit, is listed alongside macOS 11 or later for Intel and Apple Silicon. Yurt Rock names Pro Tools among the hosts.
DECADE vs RC-20?
RC-20 stacks noise, wobble, distortion, bit reduction, a lo-fi reverb, and volume drops, with one knob to scale them. DECADE moves a console, a room, and a playback format together when you pick a year. Use RC-20 for a general vintage texture. Use DECADE when 1974 and 1979 need to be different drums.
How many computers, and does it need iLok?
Three machines, with self-serve deactivation. No iLok and no dongle. After activation it runs offline. Vault members sign in inside the plugin instead of buying a separate licence.
