Questions about the single audio port of my Macbook Pro 10.8.2

So, I need to simultaneously have one audio output and an audio input. I noticed my macbook has one audio jack (with the icon of headphones) and I was wondering what kind of potential it has? Or, what my options are? This is mostly for recording music, so I can have headphones in the output and my synth in the input.
I have a cable where it doubles the holes of the headphones jack (I know for sure it's an output, but can it be used as input as well?), it's the 1/8" jack that plugs into your computer and the other end is just two "headphones" holes. So.. I can physically plug in my synth and headphones, and when my synth's "local" is off, and I play the keyboard - i hear nothing through my headphones. When the "loca" is on, I hear myself playing through the headphones. Therefore, the sound of the synth has to be going through the audio line as input and coming out as output or something... So I would think that it does double as inout ad output but I really don't know. But... in Logic I can't record anything either way. So, I don't know if I'm messing up or if the macbooks jacks are just being used incorrectly... There's a lot of variables to this problem ):

vietna wrote:
So the USB 3.0 will definitely work as an input source if I get a USB/audio cable? Can the USB ports work as both in and out lines? Also, I have a midi USB interface hooked up... it won't like override or do anything weird with that will it?
I did not say that, I said "Use a USB interface"
There are thousands of them out there, and they will provide higher quality than the 1/8" analog connection.
Look at Lexicon, M-Audio, Tascam etc, look for the facilities you want (2ch/4ch/morech, mic/line inputs etc)

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