I've made this patch for granular synthesis and it works fine but I would like to adapt it so that it includes a grain density parameter. What I need is to be able to specify a gap between each time the wave~ object plays the grain envelope. I've tried experimenting with train~ and zigzag~ but I can't get anything to work.

Any help or advice would be very much appreciated.

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grain-density-problem

Your pasted patch is probably truncated and will therefor not work. It is better to start a new thread and use the "copy compressed" option from the Edit menu. Scrolling 74 meters down is just over the limit.

Grain density problem