While not free, it has an extremely generous "evaluation" period and is a professional-grade powerhouse used by many former Adobe users. Adobe Audition (Creative Cloud):

Audition 1.5 was designed for Windows XP. Forcing it to run on Windows 10 or 11 using a crack often leads to frequent crashes and lost work.

Older software often lacks native support for modern operating systems like Windows 11 or macOS, leading to frequent crashes [1.2.8, 1.3.3].