MPC live and ableton Link + MIDI out issue

hey gang - reaching out here first…
my MPC live receives clock from ableton LINK - which is awesome! with my fancy pants apollo twin, I’m getting close to perfect sync - so if I only had an MPC this would be grand. The MPC however is the master for my pyramid (only transport and clock).
Here’s my issue:
When pushing play on my MPC, the MPC patiently waits for the LINK signal to reach a new bar and then the MPC plays with a really tight sync and I can record the MPC click with hardly any offsets in ableton. the pyramid however - plays right away after pushing play on the MPC (as opposed to wait for LINK to reach the new bar) At some point I imagined there is some kind of 1/4 note start quantize going on, but 4 times of 5 there’s an offset between the pyramid and the MPC. I do blame the MPC for jumping the gun on the MIDI out, but I was wondering if anyone out there had experience with a similar setUp and if there’s anything I could do about?
thanks hive mind!

Giving this a bump