autotuned to death

[ikijapan]

Hey all,

I know the autotune question has been beaten to death, but I had a few specific questions for those with experience.

First, I have a vocal track I'm working with for someone, and we have done like 50 takes, and the performance is turning out great, but there are a few notes that are questionable. I never figured out how to use autotune correctly and it's been sitting on my computer as the biggest, dumbest waste of money I've had so far. I never could get it to sound right. Then I found this video that kind of explains how to use the graphical mode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WavtqBSEYTc

OK, so that was real helpful. But the guy I'm working with has a very wide vibrato, and the video demonstration has the notes tuned to a flat line straight across the note. I think it sounds a little funny like that. Do you guys use the vibrato feature? or draw in the vibrato manually for pitch corrections?? I wish there was another demonstration somewhere on using autotune...I mean the manual is fine, but I really could use more direction on this.

Also, my last question is, with the graphical mode seeming so NECESSARY, is there even a way to use the autotune rack mount unit? I mean, it seems like it would be useless since it's almost a requirement to use the graphic correction?