Our scheduling software is ideal for automatically creating clash-free schedules and timetables for your festival or event. TTMaker will work for your jazz festival, folk festival, or any other event, eisteddfod, or song contest.

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One of TTMaker's first applications was scheduling a Jazz Festival. TTMaker is now used in many festivals to solve the complex timetabling of many groups of entertainers where each person may be in more than one group. What does TTMaker do? Put simply, TTMaker automatically schedules groups of people. It can schedule individual people or groups of 10, 20, 50, 100, ... people. TTMaker is clash-free scheduling software. "Clash-free" means that no person is scheduled in more than one place at the same time. TTMaker automatically ensures that your completed timetable is clash-free; you don't have to manually prevent clashes, or manually fix them after the timetable has been built.

In a festival, your entertainers may be in multiple performance groups, so it's important to ensure that your timetable is clash-free.

How do I use TTMaker?

For scheduling purposes, TTMaker uses the terms "participant", "group" and "venue". In a festival environment, here's what these terms mean to you:

Participant

Any person that needs to be scheduled. These may be musicians, dancers, acrobats, clowns, etc. TTMaker ensures that each participant is scheduled to be in only one place at a time.

Group

TTMaker schedules groups into the timetable. A group can contain many participants as members of the group. You can also have a group of one person. In a music festival, each of your bands would be a TTMaker group.

Venue

A place where performances take place. Typically, a festival has many venues that run concurrently.

Here are the typical steps you'd take to use TTMaker for creating a festival timetable:

1. Enter your performers as TTMaker participants. To save typing, you can use TTMaker's powerful import facility if you already have this information in electronic form.
2. Create a TTMaker group for each performing group (e.g. one group for each band). Add the participants as members of the groups in which they participate.
3. Create your venues.
4. Create the days and timeslots for your schedule. TTMaker has extremely flexible features for day and timeslot definitions.
5. Click the "Build timetable" button to automatically generate your clash-free timetable.

What else can TTMaker do for me? Our scheduling software provides many powerful features to give you control as your timetable is automatically built. If scheduling your festival normally takes weeks of work, TTMaker can cut your time expenditure down to just a few hours. Instead of 2 or 3 people working on your schedule, you'll only need one person!

Here are some of the things you can do:

• Control which venues your groups can be scheduled into by specifying the facilities that the venues provide and the groups require. For example, some bands may need a piano and only some of your venues may provide a piano.
• Control which venues your groups can be scheduled into by using styles. For example, you might want to allocate certain styles of music to certain venues.
• Control how many times a group is scheduled in your timetable. Also, you can control how many times a group is scheduled in each day.
• Provide availability information to control when groups are available for scheduling in each day.
• Provide availability information to control when individual performers are available for scheduling in each day.
• Control how many consecutive timeslots a group requires when it is scheduled.
• Manually schedule some groups, and allow TTMaker to automatically schedule the other groups.

How do I get started?

The first step is to download TTMaker and try its powerful scheduling for yourself.

We recommend that you use a small sample of your data and create a timetable with the demonstration version of TTMaker. By trying TTMaker with a small sample of your data, you'll quickly determine whether it is the right software for you.

We provide a free evaluation service, so if you get stuck or would like some help in setting up your data for use with TTMaker, please .

In the news

A magazine story was published about one Jazz Festival's use of TTMaker. Read it here.