Reply to Searching for a mixer for Ableton

Hey everybody!
I just got into production and mainly use Ableton Live for music production at the moment. As I believe hardware would be much more comfortable than mouse and keyboard for editing parameters, volume etc. I was looking for a mixer which is MIDI-capable (or capable of another protocoll which communicates with Ableton).

I just had a look at the Mackie Control Universal Pro which is already quite fine (motorfaders, transport section etc.), but I would love to have some more encoders for having to use "Shift"-Switches less. Nicest would be a controller that looks almost like an analog mixer with several rows of encoders.

But as far as I've not yet found one I would like to hear your suggestions!

(P.S.: I'm not talking about such a 50.000$ Protools mixer, budget is probably not much higher than 2000 if really necessary.)