If I was to buy anything right now, it would be another Mackie Control Universal. There really isn’t much else out there worth it in the price range as far as a control surface. Steinberg added a lot of functionality to the Control Universal. Have a look in the Cubase 7 forum. There’s dedicated thread for it pinned in the forum.
I’ve been using mcu and xts for years and nothing has been brought out to lure me away from them.