need help with 74HC04 chip to invert high to low

With the wemos as I have it now, It just seems too much transition time turning on/off the LED when touching the capacitive momentary switch.
Maybe it's just the way I'm using the wemos currently. I have one as an AP and 4 others as a station. I could simplify this to 1 station for this project. Just have the AP turn the LED on the station for second and turn right back off? Then integrate the NPN for the trigger pin on the sound board.

What do you guys think?

Radioshack should have NPNs so I won't have to buy online. I'll be back.

Thanks