Mixing is far more important at a non-professional level as it is where the track gets its quality from. There is a saying that you can polish a turd, but at the end of the day it is still a turd. I think this applies to music very well, if the music was not put together well and wasn't mixed well,...

Thank you for these tutorials.

I often find soundfonts having weak sound too. First thing that I would try before resorting to individual sound samples is to add some amp, delay, reverb, and chorus effects (no particular order). It should sound stronger and fuller now. Smaller, lower quality soundfonts may not benefit much from a...

Sounds a bit too dry here and there (you could use a pad for the background), but overall I think it's a very nice first track.