Rate~ and phase offset in Pluggo

I am using plugphasor~ and rate~ (in lock mode) to keep a LFO in sync with my host (DP 4.6). plugphasor~ cycles every quarter note. If I want LFO to sync to the half note I put 0.5 in the right inlet of rate~.

This is where my problem comes in. I would like to be able to choose weather the cycle starts on 1 and 3 or 2 and 4. Using +~ and pong~ I've implemented a phase offset, but what appears to be happening is this: Depending on where I stop playback and rewind, the rate~ object locks it's phase according to where it left off. The net result of which is rate~ will start its cycle on 1 and 3 part of the time and 2 and 4 part of the time.

I've had a couple thoughts on how I might work around this issue to make the LFO sync how I want it to:

The problem naturally only shows itself when the rate~ ramp is slower than the master ramp. So, having a slower master ramp could alleviate the issue. Is there a way to make a slower ramp out of pluphasor~ with out causing the same problem?

I could possibly use rate~s goto message to correct the sync, but as far as I can imagine, this would mean making a calculation and triggering the message every beat, which seems to me to be a lot of (hopefully) unnecessary processing.

I sure would like some help with this conundrum. Has anyone else dealt with this?

Thank you, one and all.

-ian