The second camp, however, issued a warning. Testimonies spoke of a specific bug—or feature—in the v2.0a build. When processing a solo vocal track for longer than 45 minutes, the plugin would begin to "leak." It would write small .WAV fragments to the user's temp directory, each fragment containing a randomized clone of the original vocal, but pitched to mimic the acoustic signature of the room the listener was in. A digital mimicry of physical space.

"You cannot unhear the ensemble. You are already a clone. Trap yourself."

Whether this was a brilliant piece of psychoacoustic code or a simple buffer overflow, ArCADE never patched it. In their final NFO, they simply added a line in green ASCII text: