So, My AFG1022 arrive this is my first impression:
Yes is Chinese made, plastic case, front buttons are good, in general nothing different to others brands.
Fan is noisily, more louder of my 25 years old HP8116A.
Works very fine in standalone mode.
Now starts the funny things of Tektronix, Tek-Visa do not support the model.
NI-Visa until now not support too, so forget LabView, no drivers IVI or others.
The recommended software for generate waveform - ArbExpress (2013) not connect with this model, device is not in the list of models.
So, you are restrict to MathLab and out of grid.
Sincerely I never expect this kind of mistake from Tektronix, Tektronix says that the instrument is for students and low cost.(US$ 700,00)
Searching in Internet I found this in Tektronix Forum, Tektronix Application engineer said:
"ArbExpress is free (no-cost) software. It is covered under our Software Download Agreement: http://www.tek.com/software/software-download-agreement
ArbExpress is only intended to introduce the concept of arbitrary waveforms. typically, customers use MATLAB or Python for advanced waveform synthesis. Since these are already fantastic tools, I personally don't see any way we could improve them even if we charged for ArbExpress."No easy way to integrate with other instruments by usb, gpib or ethernet. Automation measurement ........
Dave make a review. maybe Tektronix update Visa and ArbExpress.