Looking for advice on the rotary

I have owned the 1F for a few years now so im quite comfortable with the machine. It has the BB controller.

I just purchased the elite upgrade kit with the rotary, touch setter and ATC.

Do i need to have the Z touch probe in order to use any of this? I didn’t much like the one i had and sold it a couple of years ago.

Does anyone have any advice on using the rotary? I didnt see if anyone had one to test before the announcement. I have been using Carbode Create for everything so i guess I’ll need to pickup Vcarve.