I will never go back with the Artist Control and here is all the problems that I have and as today date I'm still waiting from Avis support to help me.
http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=321985
I dont know about a bit of setting up, but a month full of problems if enough. After talk with 2 others studio owners they also had so many issues before but never something similar to mine.
Its enough for me.