Bus to Audio track or Track to Track

Hi,
I'm an ex-protooks user and I want to know how it's possible to records a bus on an audio track.
BMy routing is: Track1 (my song with effect)
go to bus 1
and I want that this "bus1" go to "track2" to record my song with effect !
Or if its possible to do Track 1 -> track 2 -> general
Hope you will understand,
I'm here if you have question ^^

Clearly Runaway has correctly identified external routing as the only way to do this; you can monitor an effect, but you can't record this feed directly. This appears to be what you originally wanted, when you said:
>and I want that this "bus1" go to "track2" to record my song with effect!
And it's not an oversight at all, but quite deliberate. In technical terms, this means that the greatest amount of resources are available within your PC for actual recording - so that means you can potentially record more tracks simultaneously.
But there is another more principled reason for this as well - and that is simply that recording
anything with applied effects is bad practice, simply because you cannot, certainly with things like reverb, remove them once recorded - if you add too much, you're stuck with it. So the basic rule is always to record 'flat and dry'. Adding effects to the monitoring channel, so that singers can hear a bit of reverb in their foldback, is clearly often desirable though, so the facility to do this is included. But the only way to record the effected feed is to route a physical output back to a spare input, and record that.

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