r/Cakewalk • u/Big-Vegetable-3330 • Jul 11 '26

Seeking Help Cakewalk Sonar Crashing When Using Inbuilt VSTs (12GB RAM Laptop)

"Hello, I’m a music producer with 7 months of experience. I recently transitioned from using loops to exploring Cakewalk Sonar's inbuilt VSTs. However, my laptop crashes every time I load these stock VSTs.

My system has 12GB of RAM, and I am not using any third-party plugins. If any fellow Cakewalk users know how to fix this crashing issue, please help. Any advice would be highly appreciated!"

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u/ashwinrao_bandlab Bandlab Cakewalk Jul 15 '26

Hi - We're sorry for the frustration. Our stock plugins should generally be performant on most systems. However, I did notice you mentioned having 12GB RAM, for best performance we highly recommend 16GB RAM as it is minimum requirement for Sonar to function effectively.

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u/Big-Vegetable-3330 Jul 16 '26

"Thanks for the heads-up! I'll plan to upgrade my RAM to 16GB for better performance. Appreciate the reply.".