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I love the Presonus Faderport. Multiple faders annoy me because the whole bank switching and you never really know which channel is where.
I'd love to have as many faders as I have tracks, along with color colored scribble strip displays, but this is insanely expensive and not really worth it. Just group the tracks you want to automate and use one fader, then click on the desired group in the software mixer and automate them. Subgroups work well for automation because you can still edit the non-automated levels of the single tracks, i.e. make the overheads louder after you've automated the drum set.
The Faderport also has nice backlit buttons (LOVE the transport buttons), all in intuitive colors and you have dedicated "write", "read", "touch" and "off" (disables fader) buttons unlike the Frontier Alphatrack.
The pan control really sucks in Logic though, you need to turn it really slow and then the fader comes motoring up and stopping at your know turning fingers (in touch mode, the fader will stop there because you touched it...). I can't work without that thing anymore, just select the track you want with the mouse or cursors, move fader, proceed.
It's also much more precise than the Behringer (10-bit ALPS Fader vs. 8-bit crap fader), quiet in operation, very responsive (dual motors), touch sensitive (you really need that for automation), and you just plug it in via USB.
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