What is the role of the Code Editor in EarSketch?

The Code Editor in EarSketch serves the purpose of allowing users to write, edit, and run code. This environment is essential for composing music using programming languages like Python or JavaScript within the EarSketch framework. Users can create their musical compositions by writing scripts that manipulate audio samples, apply effects, and organize the overall composition.

The Code Editor is not primarily designed for editing existing audio files or recording sounds directly, as it focuses on the coding aspect of music creation. Visualizing song structures, while important and certainly part of music production, falls outside the main function of the Code Editor itself, which is to facilitate coding rather than graphic representations. Thus, the capability to write and run code is central to the use of the Code Editor in EarSketch.