Hi - i've been busy with work so long delay...
I was interested in seeing if the arpeggiator voice in Radio Ga Ga could be reproduced on the NS2... I had my doubts, but thought i'd give it a go.
The results are more "Radio BooHoo" than "Radio GaGa"! But as always, you can get something usable with the NS2.
First off - no samples. That's cheating! 
I tried to reverse engineer the sound and decided to use a square LFO to modulate the cutoff frequency on a staccato synth with the arpeggiator latched on.
It works surprisingly well, but I discovered a big drawback with the NS2 synth - you can't reset the LFO when you press a key - it just runs.
(EDIT: I added an item to the NS2 wishlist if you want more detail on this.
nord-stage-forum-f3/ns2-wish-list-somet ... tml#p52622)
Anyway, with both the arp and the LFO synced to the master clock running around 104BPM it's ok.
If you Tweak the Frequency knob up to 12 oclock, and the Freq 1 (LFO mod) down a bit and Freq 2 (Mod env) betwen 12 and 3pm, you can mess with the arp and see how the LFO does its thing. (you can hear the results of some of this in the MP3) To any synth
noobs beginners out there, i am willing to go into more detail on this kind of thing, but in another post
I put this in Slot A and mapped it to the Lower part of the keyboard (Try F1 - i think the song is in Fmajor), and then tweaked a kindof generic pad I made for something else in Slot B, and added a Piano slot for a bit of attack (I used the Yamaha Studio Grand i think), I don't like the results myself, but I thought i'd post it anyway.
Personally I would probably use another synth to handle the arpeggio and go for a fatter, fuller sound on the NS2 using both synth slots.
As usual the disclaimer: this is not a demo of great playing, nor is it meant to be a fully authentic patch. Just an education in tweaking the synth.
EDIT: DO NOT GET THE PATCH FROM THIS POST! - it was just a quick first attempt. Get the better version on the next page of this thread, which sounds like this:
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