Have you tried to isolate the bell to check if the switch is bad?..turn off the bell/edge zones and then dial in the bell.
The bell and edge are switch types and require a harder strike or to be "shanked" so if you are using the tip as I have seen many try to do
you will need to increase the sensitivity and lower the threshold..not all the articulations are the same.Some have a decent bell ..some do not.
The STRIKE 14" Crash is actually single cable 3 zone...for whatever reason Alesis doesn't advertise it.
I can get the bell to trigger and I know I have to hit it quite accurately in the trigger zone with the stick (not the tip). But trigger success is way less than 50% (closer to 10% actually) and to me that is not acceptable.
The Pro-X and STRIKE use the same bottom controller..the top cymbals are different.The Pro-X is Single Zone the STRIKE is Dual Zone
That is in fact good news. The Pro-X is 12” so if / when I don’t like the top cymbal I could probably replace it with some dual zone 12” cymbal or something.
I’m not sure what my migration path will be. It doesn’t make sense to invest in a single connection ride, so probably the module upgrade will go first (until that lousy bell pisses me off too much). I can see me using the Crimson module for the ride only (for a short while) and connect the rest to a Strike module. I can connect both modules to a mixer and voila. (I have a 12 channel mixer with 4 stereo channels)
Meanwhile I’ll try to fumble with the trigger settings of the ride to see whether this helps.
Thanks for your answers, friend. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge.