multichannel panning

I have connected 8 outputs for a audio track.
Thus, I see the following graphic:

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• : cyan
. : orange
The line is diagonal!

I can manually move sounds by shifting •. However, how can I automate it?

best,
prko

@prko: you can’t. multichannel panning in ardour is fundamentally broken. you should be using ambisonics instead (http://ardour.org/node/2804)