Changing Pan on MIDI

So, most programs allow you to change the speaker pan for your intruments, right? Well, I'm here to ask "How do you pan your musical parts to sound better, whats the purpose and technique of this?"

Pan is as important as volume! Pan is everything you need to simulate positioning of instrument in MIDI tracks. For instance, if you use orchestral midi, you should put your violin section a little to the left, as thats the actual position of the ensemble.

Try different settings though :)

Renato