Best way to sync a Phasor~ with transport?

Hi, new max user, i think some of my frustrations come from wanting to do things in Max the way I used to do them in Reaktor (as context)...anyway looking for advice. I wanted a phasor to be synced to the transport, used the standard delta, edge detection for creating bangs at resets to drive a counter that worked independently, but still synced to the transport. What I wanted to do was read what bar and what beat I was on then modulo the counter with the note division i chose, add all those numbers together to get the current step number in relation to the size set by the user in bars - for example, If i set my midi recording to loop every 2 bars I modulo the current bar over 2, multiply by my note division, then add the current beat multiplied by note divisions to get my starting offset value to add to my counter driving current step from 0. But, the phasor was wildly out of sync. numbers that should reset over the modulo at the same time were sometimes two or three steps behind, the phasor was inconsistently throwing out a 1 at the start instead of starting at 0, and just looking at a counter of the phasor edge detection and transport beat readout it was clear they were operating on much different wavelengths. Wish I had the project to share, it was total spaghetti wires anyway, but with all this possibly being irrelevant, what is the best way to independently clock something that is still synced to the transport?

Edit: also is there a way to hold a calculation from being processed until I receive new numbers at both inlets? Because Im still having this sync problem driving from the metronome. Numebers in modulo are rolling over to 0 before the last numbers have arrived from the previous calculation, even though they should be all arriving simulataneously.

Thanks,

A newbie