Mac Alternative To Adobe Audition, (re-posted to the correct forum) Options

[pauldice]

Hello,

I currently use Adobe Audition under Windows to create 'mixtapes' of my vinyl collection. This involves recording tracks from vinyl to WAV files (via an M-Audio FireWire 410), doing some simple editing on the files (e.g. trimming, noise reduction), and then stringing them together in the multitrack editor (with some additional splicing/rearranging, FX and overdubbing).

Now I am looking to switch to the Mac but am gutted to find that Audition is not available. Is Logic Express suitable for doing the kind of tasks described above (wave recording/editing and multitrack sequencing of those files). If not, any other suggestions for replacement packages?

Oh and I know that I can run Audition on an Intel Mac via Boot Camp or Parallels Desktop but I want to avoid that if at all possible.

Thanks in advance.
Paul