The feedback has been consistent: some of you want to grab every knob yourself. Some of you want to drop the needle and let the software do the thinking. And some of you looked at a real-time restoration engine and immediately asked, “okay, but can it archive my whole collection while it’s at it?”
The answer, as of today: yes, yes, and yes. Kraken Vinyl Elixir is coming in three versions.
🐙 KVE Lite — You Drive
Lite is for the hands-on listener: full manual controls over every stage of the cleanup — click removal, crackle reduction, hum filtering, and noise reduction, each with its own adjustments. You set the levels, you make the calls, you tune the engine to each record and each mood. If you’re the kind of person who has opinions about tracking force (we see you, we are you), Lite puts you in the driver’s seat with nothing between your ears and the knobs.
🐙🐙 KVE Pro — The Kraken Drives
Pro is where the intelligence switches on: automatic detection finds the clicks, crackle, hum, and noise on its own, and live playback monitoring lets the software adapt as the record plays. Quiet passage? It adjusts. Rough inner groove? It adjusts. A pristine side followed by a thrift-store tragedy? It handles both without you touching a thing. Drop the needle, and the Kraken reads the record in real time and does what needs doing — no more, no less.
🐙🐙🐙 KVE Super+ — The Kraken Drives, Records, and Files the Paperwork
Super+ is everything in Pro, plus the feature the archivists have been asking for since day one: vinyl recording with automatic track splitting. Play the record, and Super+ captures the cleaned audio and splits it into individual tracks — your irreplaceable pressings preserved as files, ready for whatever comes next, without you sitting there with a stopwatch marking song boundaries like it’s 1998.
And Super+ is where the future lives: more features are coming, and this tier is where they’ll land first.
Why Three?
Because after months of feedback, one thing became obvious: vinyl people don’t agree on how involved they want to be — and that’s not a problem to solve, it’s a preference to respect. The tinkerer, the listener, and the archivist are all right. So instead of building one product that half-satisfies everyone, we built one engine with three ways to use it.
Same Kraken underneath. Same detection quality, same surgical repairs, same bench-tested engine we’ve been documenting on this blog all along. The versions just decide how many tentacles you want doing the work.
More details as we get closer to the invitational beta in late Q3 — including which versions beta testers will get their hands on.
So… go drop a needle. The Kraken’s got the rest. However much of it you want.