What equipment do i need?

Hi there
I use sonar x2 and windows 7 64bit
What equipment do i need?
So what do I need if I want to record 3 track at the same time ?
And without latency
And with pre reverb and fx
 
1 for mic
2 for guitar
3 for keyboard

Well, as I am not the one who has all the answers....
 
First you need a good mind to trouble shoot, and read, and understand what you want out of your doings..,,,And then how to get or do is important , and reason for also to ponder why...if it comes to wanting it with sonar x2?...Hmmm...might be a issue to update eventually to...x3, and so on...until lifetime updates eventually are paid...for to get it doing for you...you need a pc...so they said, is all you need, no no no you need windows os?...well you might have to get a sound card with multiple inputs....Call her maiden marry if you wish?....And follow the instructions well.....And you will be in troubled waters asking ....WTF happened to my tracks???...when they vanish, or...the audio drops the driver for...Or, it just bugs out on you.., or the project gets corrupted by unknowns.....In this effort you seek to find answers for what equipment do you need?......The one given you is the mind and the body, and the life is in you...Not the machine....Is it a true answer you seek here?
 
Is all said here and there it will do for you..?...Consider using your head and body more so to make, or get to the founders of mayhem and RND is your baby to pick a choice or choose one of your liking...To prove it works or not is your choice to make...And less troubles will be with you......Surely?..or Sherly?...Ok, caller what you want to?....lol
 
I think a good audio mixer kind of setup , with onboard effects, or sends or inserts would do you wonders...usb or others are available with problems ...and hardware external effects tied to sends and returns and inserts, and back up machines of tape tied in, and other PC or computers working in unison to save save save the day...all working for you..might be a stretch in the wallet or your budget, if you have one for it, if you cannot figure out what you need.....
 
How are you going to figure out how to use it?...might be a already telling tale...most have here and there with it....So why bother?....adventure?....Just had to ask...before sending you hunting for...the buy buy buy listed ...Motu, and others are now making...Allen & health...and others no doubt .M audio, to the extreme best of the best..all say do some of making a good audio mixer/audio interfaces with PC connect for multiple in and outs...small or large is up to you....Is likely your best move to consider.
 
Why?...external effects tied to inputs, sends or inserts, reduce cpu load...internal built in the mixer is like also...so you monitor the mixing desk or board, and PC outs...and most is not all is outsourced to external gear...although some do use plug ins...and now you have the best of all of the sort...to sort out.
 
And routing...and so on...and power to run it..and payment for it...is your baby .....So, lots to say, lots to consider...cost seems to be the deciding factor in most of this....Or you win it doing remix contests?....
 
So they say many are on this wide path now...Look into the problems with it....And think hard about it...It can be rewarding to solve for, or make it be as it is...Or just learn how to make music first...with a instrument of your liking....And play....It sure cuts out all the other stuff...when you get to making it be...less of a cost, you reward yourself with the Truth...it is less trouble!
 
 
Just keeping it real for you before hand, and I am sure most will say...yeah!.
 
Cheers!

AT
A 4-input audio interface (they only make them in mutiples of 2 or 4).
 
Such as 
 
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/US4X4
 
All interfaces have some latency - even if it is only the ADDA conversion (which is indistinguishable).  And my Tascam 20x20 latency through USB 3 is about 4 ms - the equivalent of playing guitar 4 ft. from the amp.  Even USB 2 runs about 6 ms on my Win 7 machine.  But most of us use the software mixer in the interface to get Zero Latency - the incoming signal is split into two and the one you listen to isn't shunted off to the computer but sent back out directly - mixed with your previously recorded tracks for you to play along.  The main problem is with amp models (which often have their own latency which adds to the delay), since you have to play through it for feel.  Reverb for vocals - many units (as the TASCAM) have a cheap fx unit built-in for such monitoring.
 
Good hunting 
 

How can I use line in stereo with that US-4x4 USB O,o

Just think outside of the PC windows OS..:  something that ties to any Computer, or needs none, but can do all...and has effects built into, and has sends and inserts also..with Phantom power on some or all tracks...good to very good AD/DA, and Hard drive recording or Mirco cards to record onto..good pre amps....Usually work very well, and you can track with a computer also...thus you get a back up, and a solution for all if not most...here: https://www.sweetwater.com/c1008--Digital_Multitrack_Recorders
 
Thinking beyond Cake and coffee!
 
Cheers, and good luck.
 

I believe he needs a four input device or more, as you said AT...best cost to price and function ratio...Be to ponder out what is available in doing it all?...without too much bugginess, and troubles beyond the said wanting to do with....Was my point being put right?
 
 
...Reasons below, in my details might be averted...and by experience be converted?...lol
 
Cheers,,,Oh I tried the latest Platinum version....WTF.....be mindful...it could take the rest of my life waiting!

So your listening to Bass with Reverb on it ??

If you can stand to run your mics and instruments through a mixer before they hit the daw. then a mixer with direct outs on some or all the channels so you can use those outs to drive the daw, run the daw at any convenient latency and monitor the mics and instruments via the headphone jack on the mixer in analog real time.
 
This is how I do it. I monitor the sources directly, adding any effects using hardware reverbs in the mixers aux sends and returns or onboard if available. I don't "print" the effects just monitor the sources with them.
 

bitflipper
You won't be able to do that without a hardware investment: a new interface with integrated fx, a mixer or an outboard reverb unit. Computers just aren't fast enough to use software reverbs in real time.

Get round-trip latency to under 10ms, or for most people under 15ms, and it’s perfectly possible. And modern computers should be able to handle that, given a good interface with good drivers. Making sure the reverb used doesn’t add latency is important as well, of course.

There’s also the half and half way of doing things where the direct signal is monitored directly through interface or mixer and the DAW is used just to add the reverb. That way while you might get a tiny increase in delay time for the early reflections part of the reverb you bypass any excessive latency as far as the direct signal is concerned. At worst it just pushes back the perceived “walls” of the reverb’s virtual room a few feet.

Hey Greg,  I guess if you're used to it and you keep it at a low wet mix you might not even notice.  I need the bass real tight to keep my timing on, reverb makes stuff sound sloppy and to me it is distracting. Each there own for sure. I don't track vocals with Reverb myself as I need to hear my errors and reverb masks the details. But I've had clients who seem to perform better when they have that wall of sound in the phones. 
Since I stopped taking on clients I removed my Lexicon MX 200  from my studio rack and it now lives in my live performance rack.