Here’s my plug for the MCU Pro.
(Also use a Behringer X-Touch Compact)
I use 24 channels of them and the Integration with Cubase is amazing.
Watching an operation vid on the Nuage a while back and the Cubase/MCU functionality strikes me as a sort of little brother to that (really!).
Touch Sensitive Faders are a MUST for me for certain Automation things.
As noted I also use a Behringer X-Touch Compact (in Generic Remote mode) which has many more functions on it.
I do not use the Behringer as a “Mixing” surface.
I use it to send some CC messages and a lot of editing things - also control room stuff.
Wrote a little Review on the Behringer Here:
Fader noise on the MCU is not an issue - at least with the latest Alps version.
I usually have very little automation going on until I’m in the mixing phase, anyway.
But if it bothers you 1 button Push turns the motors off/on.
Hugh