Can you bounce or combine two audio tracks onto a third track

Not sure if "bounce" is the right term. (And I am not talking about simply copying and pasting the regions onto the third track)
I have vocals on one track. Second vocal on another track with no overlap (But lets assume there was some overlap anyway) Can you send these tracks and combine them onto a third track. My obective is simply to save space, but I could also see using this trick to double the vocals. Can this be done, and if so how? Thanks.
With my old Zoom hard disc recorder you simply soloed the two tracks and play/rec onto the third track with Zooom's "bounce" button enabled.

Thanks Fox But as to your comment 1, are the regions going to "combine" on one of the existing tracks ?
Why don't you simply try it out ? I don't like spoilers... 8-)
And as to your comment 2, when you say "arm the new track for recording," do you then simply "rec" the whole segment of music in order for everything to be sent to the new third track? And must tracks 1 and 2 be soloed?
Look, if you have set up the two tracks to send their output to the bus, only these two will send their audio output to the bus, so you don't have to solo them. And since you don't want to record to these two tracks, you naturally only arm the new track for recording. When you then hit the record start button (or use the appropriate key command), the two tracks will play back, feed into the bus, and the new track will leech it's data out of the bus so you'll get a nice, new, neat mixdown.
Now off to the workbench! Learning by doing if much more rewarding than discussing "ifs and buts"
Fox

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I'm surprised that you aren't in the US !!
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