Intensity-level fixture group triggers

It would be really hot if we could tell Maestro to leave certain fixture groups off until we have achieved a specific intensity level target.  Even better, a definable hysteresis, where the group stays on until you drop below another specific intensity level, and a minimum on duration, where the group stays active for at least so many seconds so that it doesn't look broken if we just peaked for like a hundred milliseconds.

Then make it possible for groups triggered this way to override static values set on fixtures in some other way (maybe allow intensity to unpark fixtures?)

Now we have a way of accomplishing some really dramatic effects with the music. If we do it right, we can chill jam and go harder and harder and BOOOOOOM blinders come on, the front wash joins the pixel mapping and the floodgates open on the hazer.

Programming a screen like this would also be easier if there was a display of the current intensity level somewhere.  A number works. The UI element the Midas M32 uses on the physical console for the compressor and gate with the blue dot would be cool. Actually, a line graph like a heart monitor would probably be easiest for folks to grok.

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