Having a producer present brings a happy medium to your session by keeping writers, singers, and instrumentalists completely in sync.  The music producer on site can be doing anything from the actual beat making itself, to being the complete and final over sight on the overall record.  It’s important that the music producer in your session has the proper ear to understand how far the record needs to go and when it’s time to say the record is finally done.  

     Music production is a tedious yet exciting process.  No matter how far advance DAW’s are and programs itself, you will always need someone with the right techniques to guide the session.  A proper music producer should be able to maneuver in multiple DAW’s or have a brief understand of DAW’s as a whole.  This is crucial so the producer understands whats happening at all times.  Producers should also have a brief knowledge in still helping guide the recording process with the engineer on sight.  Yes, the engineers job is to record.  But it’s the music producers job to make sure the artist on sight is performing at a high level.