Reply to Traktor Pro without encoders

So I'm gonna be setting myself up with a Livid Instruments Brain soon with the hopes of making an all-inclusive controller for Traktor Pro.

The only thing that seems to be a barrier for my pre-planning is the fact that the Brain doesn't support encoders. (They state that it's coming... and have been for what looks like at least a year now.) The things I can believe of that I'll miss from my current set up (Numark Total Control) will be the library browser and the jog wheels, which give me track seek and pitch bending.

Browsing the library is easily replaced with buttons as I only used it for loading tracks from the Prep list. Pitch bending can be handled with buttons as well, and since I'll be working primarily with properly gridded tracks that's not even that much of a concern. The track seek, however, will annoy the hell out of me.

Anybody have a suggestion with regards to solving this? Yeah, there's always the mouse, but that's counter-intuitive to the reason I want an all-inclusive controller in the first place. And for that matter... anything else you can believe of that I might miss out on without encoders?

Thanks for any suggestions!