Self tuning through tunerstudio is an "extra" feature you have to pay for.....Its cheap at $59 or so but its misleading when they sell it as self tuning, then zing you for that ability to be enabled....not cool.
The guy who made tuner studio doesn't have any interest in Megasqurt. He only makes money if you pay for the extra features in tunerstudio. I don't mind paying him knowing that.
Their "out of the box" tuning is for either a stock 6.1 or stock 5.7. It would be pretty hard to have tunes out of the box for every single combo on the planet. For $60, the ability to tune it myself is a bargain.
You can download and use tunerstudio free. It's the 'auto tune' feature that he was referring to- you have to pay for access to that.
Make sure you get the mega log viewer as well ($20-$30). Can't view logs without it.
All my dyno tuning was done using logs.
I used the 'auto tune' to dial in idle, part throttle cruising, etc., while in the street.
Those two 'add ons' are well worth it for a beginner tuner. Sure, you can tune without them. But know at a minimum you need a way to log AFR's to RPM's.
