Quick note on Audition. It's not 100% the same, but Davinci Resolve comes with Fairlight included. And Davinci Resolve is free. It's an DAW that is definitely

Quick note on Audition. It's not 100% the same, but Davinci Resolve comes with Fairlight included. And Davinci Resolve is free. It's an DAW that is definitely at a professional level and isn't too hard to learn as someone who was used to multitrack editing in Audition. All my VST3 plugins carry over and some of the builtin effects are just as good or better than those in Audition. It's not a light-weight program at all, but comparable to Audition. I only find myself missing Audition when it comes to repairing original .wav files. But I haven't actually had to do that in many years at this point. If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend giving it a try. (I've heard good things about Reaper as a DAW and think I'll try it on my next project.)