Do you have movers or just colour changers? If you have movers, I normally make about 4-5 positions. Surprisingly you don't need many more than that. Then one good
ballyhoo will get you most of the way through the night.
Drop the positions on bump buttons. Some desks like the GrandMA and the
Strand Palette have handles that lets you adjust the
fade times of those positions on the fly. Hog desks
call this Live
Programmer timing (not sure where it is on the Hog IV, but earlier Hog had it in a setup window and it wasn't as easy to get to on the fly.) Do the same with colours - pick four primaries for max
effect. (Perhaps Red, Blue, Yellow, Amber - depends on
venue and music. Choose wickedly complementary colours - i.e., 180 degrees apart in the hue spectrum). Make a
button start a sync'd rainbow
effect and another that has an offset one (rolling rainbow). If your lights have a colour
roll feature make sure you have quick access to that. Separate the rig into odds and evens and have
intensity bumps for both pairs. Use complimentary colours in each. Give yourself a
button that strobes the entire rig (or just the back lights) - always handy at the end of a song. Keep yourself a handle that brings in a
base wash of (say) blue that you can
restore to between songs and during down times. Here are two videos that might be of interest to you - both advertizing features of our
own console called Cognito.
This one is called
busking.
This one is on how to reuse a four
cue chase over and over again all night long.
Break a
leg.