I've finally got a prototype up and running using an ATmega. The LEDs are behaving well, but as you can hear in the video, the tones sound very garbled when responding to button pushes (they sounds fine in the power-on test sequence). I'm 95% percent sure I know what's happening: the unit is scanning many times per second to see if a button is engaged. When a button IS engaged, it's playing that tone many times a second, which leads to audio distortion. The solution lies in the code, which is my weak area. I'm fairly certain the solution involves proper use of buttonState.