Introducing Decade
Choose a year. Hear your drums age. Eight decades of drum sound on a single timeline. Move the puck from 1950 to now and the whole chain follows — the console, the room, and the format the record was heard on. The year is the instrument.
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Formats: VST3, AU & AAX · macOS 11+ (Intel & Apple Silicon) · Windows 10+
Authorization: Yurt Rock account login. No iLok, no dongle, works fully offline.
The demo is the whole plugin.
Every decade, every preset, on your own drums, for as long as you like — the output mutes for a moment every 45 seconds until you activate. No card. No iLok. No countdown.
AU, VST3 & AAX · macOS 11+ / Windows 10–11
Eight decades. One puck.
Every era has its own console, its own room, and its own playback format. Decade models all three, then lays them out on a single map so a drum sound has an address.
The year is the instrument.
Drag left and right and the tone, saturation, filtering, compression, transient shaping and room all move together to what that year actually did — 1974 and 1979 are genuinely different, not the same “seventies” patch. Drag up and down for the room: dead and close at the bottom, the full cathedral at the top. Every preset sits on the map where it belongs, so you can see the era before you hear it.
1994 · Dust · Trip Hop, Boom Bap Air, Britpop and G-Funk within reach
The console. The room. The medium.
The console is eight modules in the order a studio would have them — input, tone, grit, filter, squash, hit, room, output. The room is size, decay, gate, pre-delay and damping, scaled by where you sit on the vertical axis. The medium is the format the listener actually heard, which is the strongest era cue there is. One puck drives all three. Authenticity blends the whole decade treatment against a flat rack; Mix brings your dry kit back underneath.
The format the listener actually heard.
Acetate and tube radio in the fifties, vinyl through the sixties and seventies, cassette in the eighties, CD in the nineties, MP3 in the two-thousands, streaming now. Wow, flutter, crackle, rumble, dropouts, bit reduction, disc skip, spectral holes and loudness normalisation — each modelled for its own era rather than as one generic lo-fi knob. It follows the year by default, or latch it and put a modern kit on 1967 vinyl.
Vinyl
33 & 45 RPM. Round kick, open snare, and a tape throw on the map.
Cassette
Ferric tape, Dolby B. Gated room, hard clip, and a bucket-brigade throw.
MP3
128 kbps joint stereo. Punchy kick, cracking snare, and a digital rack throw.
Take any parameter off the map.
Every module is a real processor with real controls behind it. Click one to open it, set it by hand, then hand it back to the timeline with a click. Drag a module to re-order the signal path — room before grit, squash after the filter, whatever the record needs. Live analysis draws your dry signal against the processed one, so you can see exactly what the decade took away.
Squash, opened: threshold, ratio, attack, release, and the transfer curve drawn live
One folder per decade. Plus a lab.
A hundred and twenty starting points from 1950 to now, filed by year and named for the records they chase — Yacht Deck, Linn Room, Boom Bap Air, Hyperpop, Amapiano, Jersey Club, Sample Drill. Then an Experimental lab where the timeline breaks its own rules: a Wax Cylinder 808, a Gate Pump from 1989, a Rumble Seat from 1969. Every preset shows on the map where it belongs, and the dice button rolls a random year when you want to get lost.
Four moves, start to finish.
Put it on your drums
A loop, a full bus, a single snare, or the whole mix. Decade is an effect — it works on the drums you already have.
Pick a year
Drag the puck along the timeline. Console, saturation, compression, transients and medium all move to what that year did.
Set the room
Drag up for huge, down for tight. The bottom of 1980 is a gated but small room; the top is the full cathedral.
Decide how far to lean
Authenticity blends the decade against a flat rack. Mix brings your dry kit back underneath. Both are one knob.
See the years go by.
Customer Reviews
Questions, answered.
Can I try it first?
Yes, and there's no clock on it. The free download is the complete plugin running on your own drums — every decade, every preset. The output mutes briefly every 45 seconds until you activate.
Is this a sample pack?
No. Decade is an effect. It works on the drums you already have, whether that's a live kit, a loop, or a programmed pattern.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Activate once and Decade never needs the internet to run — made for studios that stay disconnected. No dongles, no iLok.
How many machines?
Three, with self-serve deactivation.
Do I need a Vault membership?
No — the $49 license is yours forever. Membership includes the plugin along with the whole catalog, and you sign in inside the plugin to unlock it.
Which DAWs?
VST3, AU and AAX — Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, and more. macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon & Intel) and Windows 10+ (64-bit).
Stop Chasing The Sound Of The Record. Pick The Year.
Every decade, one license.
Yours forever for $49 — or included with every Vault membership alongside Dr. Fill, Pick Pocket, and the full catalog.
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Formats: VST3, AU and AAX
macOS: macOS 11 or later. Intel and Apple Silicon native.
Windows: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit only.
Presets: 120 across eight decades, plus an Experimental lab
Playback formats: Acetate & tube radio, vinyl, cassette, CD, MP3, streaming — six modelled media
Use it on: a drum bus, a single drum, a loop, or a full mix
Authorization: Yurt Rock account login. No iLok or dongle required. Up to 3 activations with self-serve deactivation.
Internet: Required for installation and activation only. Works fully offline after.
Tested in: Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper
Still deciding? The download is free.
Install it, put it on the drums you're working on right now, and drag the puck. If the year lands, the license is one click away.
AU, VST3 & AAX · Works fully offline after activation