How to Overlap Ques

Question

Hello All, 
 I have an ETC Ion at my school, and I am taking a deep plunge into the light board, so I can learn more neat features about it. Does anyone know how to over lap ques on the board. I got asked to do a light show centering around a song the studio band made, and I want to have one cue that runs over the whole song (about a 4 minutes), but I also wanted to have different lights do various things during the song. The best way I could think to pull this off would be to do the math and see at what percent the lights should be at for each Que I have and then have them all as follow through Ques so it looks as if it is one continuous cue, but if possible I would rather have them over lap, so I could do other cool light effects. Any help is greatly appreciated! 
 
 Thanks, 
 Jacob 
 
 P.S If any one has any ideas of other things to explore let me know. Also if it helps we have one fader wing.

ueliriegg · Accepted Answer

Eos-family consoles (of which Ion is a part) are what's called Move-Fade consoles. that means a channel only gets moved by a cues if this cue has a move instruction for it (move in the sense of change, not limited to actual moves like pan or tilt). 
 
this means that the behaviour you're looking for is the Ion's default. you run the first cue with a time of 4 minutes. while this cue is still fading you run other cues. as long as those cues don't have new instructions for the channels that are moving slowly because of cue 4 then cue 4 just slowly continues. 
 
if you want to break this default behhaviour, e.g. to make sure that the blackout at the end of the songs really kills all lights even if the 4 minute fade is still going on (e.g. the band wanted to go for a beer urgently and cut a verse hence the song was shorter), you can choose to have a specific cue to behave differently: set an Assert flag for this cue: Cue 7 Assert Enter. in the PSD thiss will show up with an A in the columns where you have all sorts of funny letters (M, B, A, P, MV, AF, R).