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I'm pretty sure there was a thread about this around a month ago... I'll say what I said before:
Instrumental (or vocal) skills aren't critical to music production, but many people including myself will tell you that it's not hard to spot the difference between music produced by musicians and music produced by computer geeks. Not that one can't be both of those things, but with the latter I'm referring specifically to those with no musical training.
Listening to music is a bit like reading a book. When you read a book you can often tell whether or not the author likes people. Sure, all authors know what they like and know what they want to write about, but a "people person" tends to pay more attention to the little things, to the subtleties, to dynamic and 3-dimensional characters. Likewise, producers who are also musicians tend to use a much wider dynamic range, develop more complex harmonies and progressions, and create more interesting and less repetitive tunes in general.
Ironically, the people who most often can't seem to tell the difference are the producers with no musical training. Ordinary Joes without musical background can tell, and musicians with or without production background can tell, but the "technical" producers often don't see why or where a track should have more variety or dynamics.
Of course this is all just my opinion and I'm sure there are some notable, well-known exceptions, and I'm sure many will disagree. That just happens to be my perspective and it seems to get reinforced fairly often.
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