Good audio editing program?

[eyeon]

I am currently looking for a very good audio editing program. I come from the PC world and have used and loved CoolEdit Pro (which is now Adobe Audition) for quite some time now. I do not nessesarily need multitrack recording capabilities or MIDI capabilities or anything like that, I would mainly use the program for editing and layering sound bytes, adding effects, cleaning up badly recorded songs and audio, etc... Audition was perfect for this, but is not available for OSX -- any suggestions for something similar?

Thanks.

[JFreak]

www.bias-inc.com sells peak audio editor, which is imho the greatest thing after protools. you can put in vst or au plugins, and the full version allows five of them at the same time. i think LE does only one, but there must be some difference between almost a thousand dollars and about a hundred dollars ;)

most don't need the extra features that the LE version doesn't have. i do, but that's me ;)

[walkingmac]

i agree... Peak is great and might also look at Sound Studio (http://www.felttip.com/products/soundstudio/)

[sammyjojo]

Check out Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ it's very good free audio editor and I think it has the features that your looking for.

[~Shard~]

Sound Studio does everything I have ever needed it to, which is a fair bit actually (and it came free with my iMac!). If it doesn't quite meet all of your expectations and requirements though, I'd say go with Bias Peak - it's a very powerful program!