Ableton Live + Alesis DM10 Pro

[FluffyShoes]

Hey guys, I'm new here and I hope there will be people here to help me with this problem.
I have a Christmas concert for a charity event coming up at my college. I've organized it with my friend and it is a pretty big deal. I bought the Alesis DM10 Pro electric drumset just for this event and hopefully future events like this.
My issue is that I want to hook my module to my mac, run it through Ableton Live for better sounds.

I think the sounds will be much better quality and also Alesis DM10 has an issue with wiring or something that makes the Tom 1 not as responsive. But when you hook it up through a computer it is fixed.

I was wondering instead of a preset drum kit, is there a way to use the Impulse machine. I've read about it before but I don't really know how to work it..like plugging in different sound triggers for each pad and where to get each sound

Also, I was wondering how to remap each pad, or rim to different sounds like instruments that are not drums.
Like how do you assign a certain note of a synth lead or synth chord or w/e to each pad/rim?

I saw there is a youtube video that is exactly what I need. It says Ableton Live and Alesis DM10 USB/MIDI Tutorial, but unfortunately the video is in Italian -_-

Is anyone experienced with this?
I know it's a lot but I can't find any specific help from anyone Please help me!

[Mage2k]

While Impulse would work for a handful of sounds you'd be much better off using a Drum Rack. There you have a crap-ton of virtual pads that you can put whatever samples (or midi instruments) you want on, drums or otherwise, and midi map to you Alesis drum pads. Start by going through all of the tutorials included in Ableton itself, paying particular attention to the ones on Drum Racks and midi mapping. Once you've done that if you still have questions come back here with them but people here do get a bit tired of explaining the details of the basics that are already covered by the manual and in-built tutorials.