Suggestions for testing more-than-12-note/octave tunings?

Yes, I posted a similar question on the other forum but realized I may
not be getting the help I'm hoping to receive because of the Subject line.

I want to help the author of a new Scala-loading tool for a synth test
this new tool. He's not sure if the tool is loading Scala files
directly - he's not a microtonal musician so it would be difficult for
him to test whether or not a tuning loaded from a .scl file sounds
correct. Frankly, I don't have enough microtuning experience myself
to pick out tuning errors either, but I decided to help anyway. I
decided use MIDI files of Bach pieces for my testing because that's
what people here seem to use to audition tunings.

Where I need some help in testing is in the area of tunings that
specify an average of more than 12 notes/octave or are otherwise
significantly removed from Meantone. For example, the Bach piece that
sounds good with the Meantone-tuned test patch on the synth sounds
drastically different with the Fokker-tuned test patch - it sounds
like a completely different piece, thus defeating the purpose of
auditioning a new tuning with that piece. It's because of the
remapping of the MIDI Note Number values - under the Fokker tuning, up
to 5 octaves of a standard piano/organ style keyboard map to a single
octave.

Any ideas for testing these more extreme tunings? Do folks just work
with 12-note subsets of the test tunings? Or do people just send bug
reports on their Scala-loading synth if it doesn't sound right wither
their chosen tuning?

Thanks,
Paolo

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "paolovalladolid" <phv40@...> wrote:

> Where I need some help in testing is in the area of tunings that
> specify an average of more than 12 notes/octave or are otherwise
> significantly removed from Meantone. For example, the Bach piece
that
> sounds good with the Meantone-tuned test patch on the synth sounds
> drastically different with the Fokker-tuned test patch - it sounds
> like a completely different piece, thus defeating the purpose of
> auditioning a new tuning with that piece. It's because of the
> remapping of the MIDI Note Number values - under the Fokker tuning,
up
> to 5 octaves of a standard piano/organ style keyboard map to a
single
> octave.

Thanks for providing a nice example of why the scale
paradigm sucks.

> Any ideas for testing these more extreme tunings?

Determine which pitches you want to send, and send
them.