Rumore Cinematic Impacts is a free collection of impact sound effects for modern film scoring and electronic music production, created by Alessandro Alcinesio aka HAL9K. By the way, “rumore” is the Italian word for noise).

The Library

The library contains 50 high-quality cinematic impacts with long release tails, ranging from classic sonic booms to eerie horror noises and weird sound effects. Alessandro has done a fantastic job with Rumore Cinematic Impacts, managing to create an incredibly diverse sample collection while maintaining the same level of production quality with all included sounds.

For creating the included impact sounds, Alessandro combined musical elements from normal musical instruments (like percussion instruments, pianos, guitars and others), industrial and atonal elements (metal hits, wood hits, etc.), synthesized elements (especially basses) and sometimes nasty noises made with noise generators (like Skrewell for Native Instruments Reaktor). Many different plugins were used for post-processing, most of them free, like Boscomac’s free tools fro NI Reaktor.

The Artist

More projects by Alessandro can be found on his SoundCloud and YouTube channels, as well as his Facebook page which features all the latest updates about his sound design endeavors. I was interested in hearing more about HAL9K’s sound design process and his background as a sound designer, so we’ve also made a short interview which you can read below. Enjoy the interview and scroll all the way down the page to grab the free samples!

Also, don’t forget to check out the other free sample packs available on 99Sounds, especially the previous Artist Series release which is a library called The Weird Side Samples by Introspectral.

Contents

Rumore Cinematic Impacts contains 50 audio samples in 24-bit WAV format. The download size is 185 MB, occupying 240 MB of hard drive space when extracted. The included samples are clearly labeled, for easy browsing. All included sounds have been edited, normalized, and trimmed by Alessandro Alcinesio (artist name HAL9K), who is also the author of this free sample collection.