# Automating patch creation

This section steps you through creating patches more quickly with the Clean Up Window command.

To quickly create a patch, follow these steps:

1. Create the essential blocks you need and connect them as appropriate.

   For example, you could place an envelope and a wave form and connect the envelope to the amplitude of the wave form. You do not need to add knobs or output blocks.

2. From the Patch menu, choose Clean Up Window.

   ARIA "completes" you patch, adding a knob to every unconnected input and an output block to every unconnected output.

3. Make sure that the "mute" check boxes in any output bock added by ARIA are checked appropriately.