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-Panning helps to establish a **Stereo Field**, a relative space between the speakers in which to
+Once you have established a good balance of levels on all the tracks, you can
-place your sounds and instruments.
+begin to think about panning.
 
-Once you have established a good balance of levels on all the Tracks,
+Panning helps to establish a _stereo field_, a relative space between the
-you can begin to think about panning.
+speakers in which to place your sounds and instruments.
 
 ## The Panning Interface
 
-The **Panning** control in Ardour is located in the middle of the mixer
+The panning control in Ardour is located in the middle of the mixer strip.
-strip.
 
-A Mono Track will have a Mono Panner. It looks like this:
+A mono track will have a mono panner. It looks like this:
 
-![monopan](en/Ardour4_Panning_MONO.png)
+{{< figure src="en/ardour7-mono-panner.png" alt="Mono panner" >}}
 
-A Stereo Track will have a Stereo Panner, like this:
+A stereo track will have a stereo panner, like this:
 
-![stereopan](en/Ardour4_Panning_STEREO.png)
+{{< figure src="en/ardour7-stereo-panner.png" alt="Stereo panner" >}}
 
 ### Mono Panner
 
-The default Mono Panner distributes 1 input to 2 outputs. Its behaviour
+The default mono panner distributes 1 input to 2 outputs. Its behavior is
-is controlled by a single parameter, the *position*. By default, the
+controlled by a single parameter, the *position*. By default, the panner is
-panner is centered. You can change the position by clicking and dragging
+centered. You can change the position by clicking and dragging directly on the
-directly on the Mono Panner. Right-click on the panner to access other
+mono panner. Right-click on the panner to access other options.
-options.
 
 ### Stereo Panner
 
-The default Stereo Panner distributes 2 inputs to 2 outputs. Its
+The default stereo panner distributes 2 inputs to 2 outputs. By default, the
-behaviour is controlled by two parameters, *width* and *position*. By
+panner is centered as well.
-default, the panner is centered at full width.
-
-Click and drag either the Left or the Right button to change the
-*width*. For example, if you bring them closer together it will look
-like this:
-
-![stereo width](en/Ardour4_Panning_STEREO_WIDTH.png) 
-
-With a narrower width, you can also drag the top handle to change the
-relative center position, like this:
-
-![stereo panner example](en/Ardour4_Panning_Stereo_example.png) 
-
-If we make the Left and Right buttons to overlap completely (that is,
-width is reduced to zero), the handles turn into a single signal
-indicator marked "M" (for mono):
-
-![stereo mono example](en/Ardour4_Panning_Stereo_Mono.png) 
 
 ## Panning Tricks
 
-A more extensive discussion of panning philosophy and techniques is beyond the scope of this tutorial,
+A more extensive discussion of panning philosophy and techniques is beyond the
-but here are some general rules of thumb:
+scope of this tutorial, but here are some general rules of thumb:
 
-* Guitars tend to be Panned to the left and right.
+* Guitars tend to be panned to the left and right.
 * Vocals and bass tend to placed in the center. You want to create
 a balance so that one side is not louder then the other.
-* Headphones may be helpful in determining how instruments should be panned, and whether the mix feels lopsided because one side is too loud.
+* Headphones may be helpful in determining how instruments should be panned, and
+whether the mix feels lopsided because one side is too loud.
 
-Two other tools that are useful in creating a "spatial" or Stereo Field
+Two other tools that are useful in creating a "spatial" or stereo field are
-are **Reverb** and **Delay**. These effects can be used together with
+_Reverb_ and _Delay_. These effects can be used together with sends to
-sends to create a drum send which would be further back in the mix with
+create a drum send which would be further back in the mix with more Reverb, and
-more Reverb, and a vocal send which might have a little more Delay but
+a vocal send which might have a little more Delay but sound closer than the
-sound closer than the drums. Please see the chapter on **Using Plugins**
+drums. Please see the sections on using plugins and sends later in this part of
-and **Using Sends** for more information.
+the tutorial for more information.
 
 {{% notice tip %}}
-Always keep an eye on your Levels while Panning Tracks! Panning
+Always keep an eye on your levels while panning tracks! Panning a track to one
-a Track to one channel increases the Level of that channel. This
+channel increases the level of that channel. This may change the balance of
-may change the balance of Levels you set up in the previous chapter, and
+levels you set up in the previous chapter, and in extreme cases can result in
-in extreme cases can result in Clipping. When this happens, reduce the
+clipping. When this happens, reduce the overall levels of that track and check
-overall Levels of that Track and check again how it sits in the Mix.
+again how it sits in the mix.
 {{% /notice %}}
 
+## Multichannel Panning
+
+As Ardour supports multichannel tracks, it will also provide a
+multichannel-specific panning user interface for those tracks as well. Here is
+an example of a 4-channel audio track. You can see that there is a small user
+interface right in the mixer and a larger editor window that you can access by
+clicking anywhere in the empty space inside the panning area:
+
+{{< figure src="en/ardour7-multichannel-panning.png" alt="Multichannel panning" >}}
+
+Unless you work on projects where e.g.
+[Ambisonics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonics) is involved, you will
+probably mostly deal with multichannel tracks when you use samplers,
+especially drums/percussion samplers. As different instruments in a drum kit
+tend to get a different treatment in post-production (e.g. how they are
+processed with a compressor), samplers tend to create a channel per
+instrument: one per kick drum, one per each snare etc. The idea is that you
+would route a channel into a separate bus and process it differently. Using a
+panner control in that case is unlikely to happen.
+
 ## Continuing
 
-By now, you should have a collection of Tracks which are both Mixed well
+By now, you should have a collection of tracks which are both mixed well and
-and have an exciting Stereo Image. In the following chapters, we will
+have an exciting stereo image. In the following chapters, we will learn about
-learn about **Using Plugins** to enhance the sound of your Mix.
+using plugins to enhance the sound of your mix.
 
 Next: [USING PLUGINS](../using-plugins)