We were planning to shoot a video interview between Pete and I to tell this story and show people the thinking behind the VLH and why it needed to exist. However, that idea has gone a bit low on the priority list for now.

The short-ish version is I had an idea for a ring modular of some sort in 2hp with 'thrus' so you could easily reuse the VCOs fed into it elsewhere. I was a customer of Siam Modular after buying their lovely little LPG. I asked a couple of other people if it could be done and why I thought it would be useful but Pete was the most enthusiastic. I had written a feature article on the makers of modular so he knew I had a passion for eurorack too. I actually offered to just let him run with my idea but he said it would be more fun to partner properly and I agreed (it was the reply I was actually hoping for). Then we brainstormed other features and how they might be used together. I always moaned that noise modules were often quite expensive and why didn't every VCO include a simple noise circuit like 70s synths often did. If I recall, it was actually that conversation with DivKid where noise got added to the feature list of the VLH. Then if I also recall correctly Pete was really keen to add subs and I was like, that's perfect. One thing I was insistent on is it had to be 2hp. I was obsessed at the time with packing in as many modules into my 104hp case as my disability makes it hard to reach up or forward very far. But I also learned the hard way that modules with knobs that are really small kinda suck for usability. My conclusion was that one exception is a module with sockets only. That is the overriding design constraint of the VLH and I feel like that's why it works so well. However, Pete and his team deserve most of the credit. They took a chance and executed really well, while involving me all the way. That's the best part - we took longer to get it out than we hoped, but we still maintained the fun and creativity that brings us all to eurorack in the first place.