I'm glad somebody had good luck with the thing. I think my module is probably defective and/or I somehow botched the firmware. I updated to the trigger firmware designed for the Pro-X, and got the same behavior other people were complaining about who DIDN'T have the update. Close the hat with the pedal, and it never chicks but just makes this odd swish noise. I had to downgrade the firmware to get it working at all, and that came with a lot of problems. The best I can do is have consistent open, closed, and pedal chick sounds. It's more limited than the stock pedal, but it chicks the cymbals every single time I press the pedal down, which was my main frustration. I play time on the left foot a lot, and the stock pedal was driving me insane with missed triggers and unintended splashes.
I would really like to try my luck with Superior Drummer or the like. Maybe I can tweak the parameters in external software to behave more intelligently with the inputs from the module. Maybe. Unfortunately, I don't have any way of testing that theory without spending a lot of money, and what if it doesn't work? The sounds on the DM10 are not outstanding, but they aren't garbage either.
Meh. I'm going to keep on keeping on like this until the new flagship comes out, and then I'll consider whether to do a partial or total upgrade. No matter how you slice it, even if I end up buying TWO flagship Alesis kits, it still doesn't add up to one Roland TD30-KV. Plus I can trigger 23 different sounds with this rig. It's flawed, but I have a hell of a lot of fun playing my drums, and life is pretty damn good.