I was at the automation expo today and ran into the R&S rep that sold us the MXO4 I have at work. We were discussing and playing with the zone trigger. He mentioned that it somewhat overlapped (in how it’s designed) with the mask test feature available on some other R&S scopes. That got us curious and we poked around all the menus of the demo MXO4 to see if mask testing has been added. Before you get your hopes up: it hasn’t.
But it sure looks like it may be coming, because we found an entire menu full of other features that don’t seem to be implemented yet. To get to it, you have to edit the toolbar, and then there are “mask test” and “add mask” buttons you can add. Once enabled, pressing one of them opens a toolbar with mask testing and a menu with a bunch of other things, including a spectrogram. But actually trying to do anything doesn’t work. Trying to draw a mask just gives an error. I cannot rule out that these only appear with a demo all-features license installed, but I can say that these buttons/menu do not appear on an MXO5 (with demo license installed) with the prior firmware version.