Maschine/Abelton Sync Issue

I have done a web search on this and I understand some of the problem but not fully. I always work in Abelton in arrangement view and I always start creating with a loop let's say around bar 80. Then when I'm ready to arrange I start moving everything back to bar 1 in the arrangement view.

Is it possible to get maschine to retrigger on the 1, in an abelton created loop let's say from bar 80-88? If I set a maschine pattern to be 8 bars long, for some reason it always triggers on bar 5. If I enable retrigger on the scene it wants abelton to go to bar 1. I love the maschine sounds and I love the mk3, I would so love to be able to create quickly between the two.... I just want the maschine loop to trigger on bar 1 and the abelton loop to start where I want it to start, is it possible or do I just need to work in session view? Any advice much appreciated!