All right, you have good melodic ideas and some tracks have nice arrangements in terms of instrumentation and how well they blend, its the execution in playing and mix that needs a little fix. I think you asked how to get your track on tempo, if you are playing yourself everything with a MIDI keyboard first things first play with the metronome but how to actually fix to be on tempo, every DAW when opening the piano roll you have a Quantization options that you can use on your notes to make it more on time, I suggest looking into it and how to humanize it because if you quantize everything perfectly its going to sound like a robot. Composition wise, stacked chords on mostly anything can sound pretty basic and bad in the low register, there is a couple of synths and strings doing it, you can change the voicing of your chords and spread the notes to make it sound wider in general. Like other people mentioned most of your tracks just ends abruptly, if you don't have time to create an ending just put a slight fade out to make it smoother. Also one of your synths was very loud and took to much place in the mix compared to everything else at 2:38, it sounds cool but it might be a little too much. You're on the right path, you just need a little focus on these elements. Good job !
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Thanks a lot for the feedback! Yes I'm playing everything on a midi controller I'll make sure to focus on these aspects from next time. Yes I have used stacked chords in some tracks. Are you saying to use different voicings for chords on different instruments instead of the same chord on different instruments? I think I might be guilty of playing exact same chords on different instruments I'll be more mindful of this in my future work.
What I mean is when playing a chord, on any instrument lets stay in your track at Bar 10 you are playing a C major chord on the strings and piano. Piano can play the regular triad C-E-G , but changing voicing for example to C - G - E (the E an octave higher) which is an open voicing and lets say the strings will play C - C - E - G (E and G an octave higher) to open up the voicing and give some air to the chords, it won't clash anymore in the same register. This is just a simple example to apply. You can use stacked chords but be careful and it depends what you want to achieve in terms of sound range and the relation between your other instruments.